Excerpt from Report of the Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvania, Relative to the Pennsylvania Canals and Rail-Road: Read in the House of Representatives, Dec; 22, 1830 Thecanal and raillway as far as authorized, being completed, the board are now enabled to make such statements as regards the principal features, general structure and actual cost of these imf pro/vernentsas will give the citizens of the commonwealth (at Whose expense they were constructed) a better acquaintance with their great public works than it has hitherto been in the power of the commissioners to present in their annual reports. A conden sad view of the leading facts relating to the state canals and of the principal works in its construction presented in a single dqcua ment accessible to all, may prove - satisfactory to many who have not Opportunities of general information on this subject, and may furnish some useful data for calculation and comparison. 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.