Remarks of John M. Read

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Excerpt from Remarks of John M. Read: One of the Deputation From the General Town Meeting of the Citizens of the City of Philadelphia, Held January 16, 1830, Relative to the Termination of the Columbia and Philadelphia Rail Road, Before the Committee on Inland Navigation and Internal ImprovemN 0 survey having then been made, ascertaining the practicability of taking a branch from this line down the eastern bank of the Schuylkill to tide water, Ma jor Wilson recommended a branch on the west side, down to tide water, 'opposite the City, to accommodate that trade: Every attempt was made by Major Wilson to find a more favourable route tothe Schuylkill, and his failure is no ticed' by him in the following emphatic language.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.