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." /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 29474. Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ; no. 47605. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | 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. ..."--pages 79-80 of the second state (Evans 29474). Page [78] is blank. In the first state (Bristol B9298) the text ends on page 77, with pages [78-80] blank. Map drawn by Reading Howell and engraved by James Trenchard. Errata note, p. [i]. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 80 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 color map ; 21 cm. (quarto) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |