National road--Washington to New Orleans
Subtitle: Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the chief engineer, accompanied by a report upon the reconnoissance of a route, across the Cumberland Mountain, of the national road contemplated from Washington to New Orleans, and a map of the country between those two cities. : January 30, 1828. Read, and laid upon the table. February 7, 1828. Referred to the committee of the whole House to which is committed the bill (no. 44) to regulate the laying out and making a national road from the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, to New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana
Contributors: Barbour, James, 1775-1842; Macomb, Alexander, 1782-1841; Bernard, Simon, 1779-1839; Poussin, Guillaume Tell, 1794-1876; Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner; United States. War Dept.; United States. Army. Corps of Engineers; United States. Congress House; Gales & Seaton
Series: House document (United States. Congress. House) -- 20th Congress, 1st session, no. 125.
Publisher: Printed by Gales & Seaton.
Published: 1828
Place of publication: Washington [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
Subjects: Roads; Design and construction
Notes: At head of title: 20th Congress, 1st session. [Doc. no. 125.] Ho. of Reps. War Dept.

Letter from the War Department, p. 3, signed: James Barbour.

Letter from the Engineer Department, p. 5, signed: Alex. Macomb, maj. gen. chief eng.

"Report upon the reconnoissance of a route across the Cumberland Mountains, of the national road contemplated from Washington City to New Orleans."--p. 5-16, signed: Bernard, brig. gen. member of the board of internal improvement. William Tell Poussin, capt. top. eng. assistant to the board.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in title transcription.

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Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: From the library of Seymour Durst with his bookplate.

"Remarks."--p. 17-19.

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