For tie W.. :..Dniagtoaian.
RAET,-gJ Is rs.
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The spirit for inttnal Improvement haF-
this country, it becomes the duty OF every


individual in the community, to lend his
aid to promote the execution OF tie great
works, already commenced and commenc-
my, and at the same time to suggest such
others, as appear likely to be Ct gene
raj benefit. No one need fear that too
much will be attempted while the pccuni-
airy and phl seal powers of the country
MAINTAIN their present condition; and all we
presume will allow, that these arc material
" advanced by the completion of every
great public improvement. Witness the
Canals of New York. when these were first
agitated, there were not wanting thousands
of highly respectable and intelligent indiNid-
uals, who believed that the attempt was
most chimcrical and visionary, and who
| doubted, even the ability of the State itself,
| to complete such an hercuican work. But
/ since the most sanguine expectations OF the
great Clinton have been realized, by the
successful completion of these Canals, and


since the profit arising to the State IS so i'm


mense, no one doubts but that New Iori,


may complete any work she is disposed tc


undertake. Other States can do the same


and all ou3h, to keep pace with age, ane


where they cannot make Canals, let some


other improvement of equal or greater i'm
portance be commenced.


There are some districts of country il
which a Canal cannot be made from th'


want Of water, and which from the fertiilt,


of soil aud improved state OF cultivation


have a vast surplus produce that yields littl'
or no profit to the grower, the distance t
market being so great, that almost IN


whole value OF the article is swallowed VI
in the expenses of transportation. 10 th
shipper of produce as well as to the con


Snmer IN our sea-ports and manufacturing
towns. it is an object no less import ant tha
10 the grower, that it should be conveyed t


market with the least possible consumpto
Of it's value, in the expenses OF carriage
'rhe county of Lancasteri is perhaps the mos
nroauct;vc one in Pennsylvania, but OWN
to KS distance from uavigable water, lars
norton of the value Of its productions is los
\ 70 the inhabitants, by the cost OF carriage
This then is section OF country perhap


not altogether suitable for Canal, bt
, which will be very materially benefited BY
: RaH-qsay.


By measurement on the map, Whining
: ton and Lancaster appear to be about 4
miles distant in q direct line, while Lancas


fer and Philadelphia are about &c miles a
, part; thus giving a difference in favor
I Wilmington of 20 miles, or nearly one thir
of the whole distance to Philadelphia.
= hen, railway to navigablc water be dc
: sirablc to the inhabitants OF Lancaste
: County, the preferable point OF communica
: ton, certainly, is Wilmington; notwith
$ standing it is IS miles by water to Philade
! phia; for so cheap is the transportation be
d tween these places, that on hushel


wheat the priss will not exceed three cent