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nJBLISIIED BY DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT AND MANAGERS OF THE SCHUYLKILL AND
SUSOUEHANNA, AND THE DELAWARE AND SCHCYLKILL NAVIGATION COMPANIES
“ Here fmooth Canals, acrofs th’ extended plain
Stretch their long arms to join the diftant main.
The Sons of Toil, with many a weary flroke,
Scoop the hard bofom of the folid rock;
Refiillefs through the ftiff, oppofing c'ay.
With fleady patience, work their gradual way;
Compel the Genius of th’ unwilling flood,
Through the brown horrors of the aged -wood;
Crofs the lone waile the Giver urn they pour,
And cheer the barren heath, or fullen moor.
The traveller, with pleafing wonder, fees
The white fail gleaming through the duiky trees;
And views the alter’d landicape with furprize,
And doubts the magic fcenes which round him rife.
Now, like a flock of fwans, above his head,
Iheir woven wings the flying vefiels fpread;
Now, meeting itreams, in artful mazes, glide,
While each, unmingled, pours a feparate tide;
Now, through the hidden veins of earth they flow,
And vifit fulphurous mines and caves below.
The duftile itreams obey the guiding hand,
And facial Plenty crowns the happy land !”
PHIL ADEL P H 1 A :
PRINTED BY ZACHARIAH FOULSON, JUNIOR, NUMBER ...
An Historical Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of the Canal Navigation in Pennsylvania : With an Appendix, Containing, Abstracts of the Acts of the Legislature Since the Year 1790, and Their Grants of Money for Improving Roads and Navigable Waters Throughout the State ; to Which Is Annexed, "an Explanatory Map"
