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To the Honorable the General Assembly--the memorial of the subscribers respectfully sheweth: That your memorialists have long viewed with regret and concern, the many difficulties ... the agricultural interest in the whole south western district of Virginia labors under, for the want of a water communication with tide water, in order to transport their produce with ease and convenience to a market...

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Virginia. General Assembly.
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8335.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Canals--Virginia.
Canals.
Inland water transportation.
Virginia.
Inland water transportation--Virginia.
Genre:
Broadsides.
Memorials (Legal)
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Place of Publication:
[Petersburg, Va.?] : [publisher not identified], [1805?]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
Petitioning the Virginia General Assembly to "pass a law for incorporating a company for cutting a canal from Roanoke to tide water at Petersburg."
The original, held by the Virginia State Library, is dated Dec. 12, 1805, in ms.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8335).
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