An Historical account of the rise, progress and present state of the canal navigation in Pennsylvania
Subtitle: 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."
By: 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]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 29474; Early American imprints -- no. 47605; Making of the Modern World
Publisher: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Canals; Inland navigation; Public works
Notes: Evans notes Robert Morris and William Smith as possible authors.

"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.

Signatures: [a]²([a]1 + chi1) b-d² A-T² [U]².

Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard.

Errata note, p. [i].

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 16408.9.

Evans 29474

Bristol B9298

Shipton & Mooney 47605

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4532

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4533