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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 throughou 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
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, William, 1727-1803, author.
- Morris, Robert, 1734-1806, author.
- Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company, author.
- Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation, author.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canals--Pennsylvania--Early works to 1800.
- Canals.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 80 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 color map ; 4⁰
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street, MDCCXCV. [1795]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- 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 p. 77, with p. [78-80] blank.
- Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard.
- Errata note, p. [i].
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 29474
- Bristol, B9298
- Shipton & Mooney, 47605
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4532
- Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4533
- English Short Title Catalog, W12691.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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