An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania. With an appendix, containing, abstracts of the acts of the Legislature since the year 1790, and their grants of money for improving roads and navigable waters throughout the state; to which is annexed, "an explanatory map." Published by direction of the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna, and the Delaware and Schuylkill Navigation Companies. [Twenty two lines of verse]
Morris, Robert,1732-1806.
Smith, William,1727-1803.
Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.
Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street,
MDCCXCV. [1795]
"An act to enable the president and managers of the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation .. to raise, by way of lottery, the sum of four hundred thousand dollars .. Approved April 17, 1795. .."--p. 79-80 of the second state (Evans 29474). Page [78] is blank. In the first state (Bristol B9298) the text ends on p. 77, with p. [78-80] blank.
Errata note, p. [i].
Evans notes Robert Morris and William Smith as possible authors.
Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard.
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Evans,
Bristol,
Shipton & Mooney,
Rink, E. Technical Americana,
Rink, E. Technical Americana,
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