Proposal of a design for the promotion of the interests of the United States of America
Subtitle: extending its advantages to all ranks and conditions of men, whether monied, landed, agricultural, commercial, mechanical, or manufactural, by means of inland navigable communications of a new construction and mode : possessing many advantages superior to the canals executed in Europe, more expeditiously executed and carried into immediate operation and effect, completed at a less expense, containing within itself funds amply sufficient for finishing and extending it to any assignable distance, and easily kept in repair and full operation for ever
By: by Christopher Colles
Contributors: Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author by Samuel Wood ...
Published: 1808
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Canals; Inland navigation; Design and construction
Notes: Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ (last leaf blank).

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. With a ms. note on the blank at end: It is proposed to reduce the barges to 6 + the canal to 13 feet wide which will diminish the expense.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1235

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