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 Canal as a rival. Their resolution read:

"And be it further resolved, That a committee of five delegates be appointed to prepare, and cause to be presented, in behalf of this convention, a suitable memorial to the state of Ohio, soliciting the co-operation of that state in the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and its ultimate connexion with the navigation of Lake Erie; and that, for the latter purpose, the memorial shall respectfully suggest the expediency of causing the country, between the northernmost bend of the river Ohio, and the southern shore of Lake Erie, together with the waters of Great Beaver and Cayuga [Cuyahoga] creeks, and all other intervening waters near the said route, to be carefully surveyed, with the view of ascertaining the practicability and probable cost of a canal, which, fed by the latter, shall connect the former." Mr. Schriver, in his volume quoted, gives much attention to this western extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. "The proposed Ohio and Lake Erie Canal," he affirms, "is intimately blended