The Register of Pennsylvania Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...down the canal. We should be much pleased to have the number and description of vessels that have passed up the Schuylkill within the last year. It would be quite interesting, and would afford a pleasing contrast with the trifling navigation of that stream, prior to our canal system having come into operation. What must be the result when the great Pennsylvania Canal shall have been completed, and its immense commerce be sent clown to us, when the single article of coal has already done so much. Our coal beds are so extensive, and the quality of our coal so fine, that the stream of wealth that must flow down to Philadelphia from that source alone, must ever make us a prosperous people. A rail road of sixty miles has been constructed in England, merely for the transportation of coal alone. The coal vessels there furnish a large share of the seamen for the navy when there is a demand for the naval service of the country. England derives immense wealth from this mineral production. Philadelphia is destined to share largely in the advantages of the coal commerce, and all this results from our internal improvement.--Am. Sent. We agree with the F.Jitors of the American Sentinel, that the visible effects of the internal improvement of the State are great on the Schuylkill, at Philadelphia; but we would invite them to extend their visit this far, and they would find materials to render the theme ten-fold more fruitful. We feel confident they would gaze with admiration at the wonderful enterprize of man--to behold our large store-houses--our numerous wharves--the boat-yards and boats--the rail-roads--our coal, the boundless wealth of this region--the industry of our citizens--and above all, a town destined to be told of in after ages, springing up, as if by magic, on..