The Great American Canals, Band 2;Band 14A.H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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Seite 146 - York ; and may the God of the Heavens and the Earth smile most propitiously on this work, and render it subservient to the best interests of the human race.
Seite 52 - An Act to Provide for the Improvement of the Internal Navigation of the State," passed on the 8th day of April, 1811, who were Gouverneur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Simeon De Witt, William North, Thomas Eddy, Peter B. Porter, Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton...
Seite 96 - Delays are the refuge of weak minds, and to procrastinate on this occasion is to show a culpable inattention to the bounties of nature; a total insensibility to the blessings of Providence, and an inexcusable neglect of the interests of society. If it were intended to advance the views of individuals, or to foment the divisions of party ; if it promoted the interests of a few, at the expense of the prosperity of the many ; if its benefits were limited as to place, or fugitive as to duration, then...
Seite 218 - States, and the states equally interested with this state in the commencement, prosecution and completion of those important works, will contribute their full proportion of the expense; and in order that adequate funds may be provided, and properly arranged and managed, for the prosecution and completion of all the navigable communications contemplated by this act...
Seite 68 - Atlantic America, on account of the priority of its settlement, its vicinity to the ocean, and its favourable position for commerce, has many advantages. The western country, however, has a decided superiority in the fertility of its soil, the benignity of its climate, and the extent of its territory. To connect these great sections by inland navigation, to unite our Mediterranean seas with the ocean, is evidently an object of the first importance to the general prosperity.
Seite 75 - York is, therefore, placed in a happy medium between the insalubrious heat of the Mississippi, and the severe cold of the St Lawrence. She has also pre-eminent advantages, as to the goodness and extensiveness of her market. All the productions of the soil, and the fabrics of art, can command an adequate price, and foreign commodities can generally be procured at a lower rate. The trade of the Mississippi is already in the hands of her merchants, and although accidental and transient causes may have...
Seite 233 - Being the history of the Philippines from their discovery to the present time EXPLORATIONS by early Navigators, descriptions of the Islands and their Peoples, their History, and records of the Catholic Missions, as related in contemporaneous books...
Seite 213 - And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, as soon as may be after the passing of this act, to cause those parts of...
Seite 216 - And be it further enacted, That the act entitled ' ' an act to provide for the improvement of the internal navigation of this state...