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 were to become by improvement the commercial avenues of the dawning age. "To combine the interes of all the parts of the ate, and to cement them in a perpetual commercial and political union, by the improvement of thoe natural advantages, is one of the greate works which can be ubmitted to legilative widom; and the preent moment is particularly aupicious for the undertaking, and if neglected, the los will be hard to retrieve."

Following this the river systems of Pennsylvania are taken up in order, showing the number of miles of waterways which it was supposed were capable of being connected and made avenues of trade. The two main divisions and their various subdivisions were as follows:

"Delaware Navigation

1. From the tide water at Trenton falls to lake Otego, the head of the northea branch of Suquehanna

2. From the tide water on Delaware to Owego on lake Ontario