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].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806.

Smith, William, 1727-1803.

Howell, Reading, 1743-1827, cartographer.

Trenchard, James, 1747- engraver.

Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company.

Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 29474.

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 47605.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canals--Pennsylvania.

Canals.

Inland navigation.

Pennsylvania.

Inland navigation--Pennsylvania.

Public works--Pennsylvania.

Public works.

Genre:

Maps -- Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 80 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates) : 1 color map

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street., MDCCXCV. [1795]

System Details:

text file

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 pages 77, with pages [78-80] blank.

Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard.

Errata note, pages [i].

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 29474).

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 47605).

Cited in:

Evans 29474

Bristol B9298

Shipton and Mooney 47605

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4532

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4533

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