Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Suggestions on the Canal Policy of Pennsylvania, in the Reference to the Effects of the Inland Navigation of Adjoining States, on the Commerce of Philadelphia: Also in Relation to a Direct Canal Through the Counties of Chester and Lancaster to the Susquehanna
The Commissioners have shewn that although the Canal will cost dollars, such will be the amount of ton nage that at the lowest computation of the income, it must yield 10 per cent. Per annum. For it is well known that one million three hundred thousand dollars worth of produce descends the Susquehanna every spring; a small part of what would descend by a Canal and that merchandise to the amount of 12 millions of dollars goes westward annually from Baltimore. But Philadelphia is supposed to send 17 millions into the country in the same direction.
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