Excerpt from 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 It 'is no wonder then, that from the entlief't fiages of commerce in the Old World, and even for the conveniency of military expeditions, and inaneuvres borh of attack and defence, canals for water-carriage fliould have been among the firfi: improvements made on the face of nature, by the moft, powerful flares, both ancient and modern. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.