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

Author/Creator:

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 775, Author.

Contributor:

Smith, William, 1727-1803

Delaware and Schuylkill Canal Company

Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[2], xvi, 80 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 col. map ; 4°.

Place of Publication:

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

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].

Local Notes:

Library copy: state unknown

Library copy: wanting p.[79]-[80] and the map

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Evans 29474; Bristol B9298; Shipton & Mooney 47605; Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4532; Rink, E. Technical Americana, 4533