Book/Printed Material A memoir on the rise, progress, and present state of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, accompanied with original documents and maps. General Collections copy
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Image 1 of General Collections copy- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 2 of General Collections copy- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 3 of General Collections copy A MEMOIR ON THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE OF THE CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL, ACCOMPANIED WITH ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND MAPS. BY JOSHUA GILPIN, FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, AND ONE…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 4 of General Collections copy Te 625 e 4G4- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 5 of General Collections copy To the Citizens of Philadelphia: AND PARTICULARLY THE COMMITTEES OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND OF THE CITY. C. 14T?S Fellow Citizens, It is with peculiar propriety I address to you the following…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 6 of General Collections copy REFERENCE TO THE MAPS. To face the title— Map of the present designated route Map, No. 1 The route from Chester to Duck creek, by T. Gilpin, 1769 Appendix, Page 1 No.…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 7 of General Collections copy A MEMOIR, &ca. It has been correctly remarked, that the near approach of the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware, must have suggested the idea of an artificial communication between them, at…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 4 As there was at that time no board established for public improvements of the kind, the Philosophical Society was the natural repository of all the ideas suggested by ingenious men on…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 5 history of the contemplated canal, and, with the papers of the Philosophical Society, all I believe, that was done upon the subject before the revolution. It will be seen that the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 6 and those which have been since made by the canal company, who, I must remark, never had these papers before them, (except the report of the society,) or very partially so,…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 7 company. At that time a very large and respectable meeting of the Stockholders assembled at Wilmington, where they elected Mr. Tilghman, the present Chief Justice, Messieurs J. C. Fisher, George Fox,…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 8 with the surveyors and engineers were collected, and formed the outline of a plan for proceeding together, in an investigation of the country, waters, and points of importance, in order to…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 9 since the settlement of the country, become so obstructed with shoals and sand-banks, either at their mouth, or within it, as to have very much lost their capacity for navigation, and…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 10 Hence we proceeded to investigate Back creek itself. This had always been of so inferior a character for navigation, that however short the distance from the head of it to Hamburgh,…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 11 waters of the Delaware, and crossed the country to Cantwell's Bridge, the head of the navigation on the Appoquinimink, nearly over the route formerly proposed for the canal from Bohemia. Here…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 12 but on the contrary considerable embarrassments from the nature of their bank on one side and their winding marshy course on the other. This pass however from its thus being the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 13 canal, or the streams at its end, or carrying masses of earth and sand into the Chesapeake or Delaware bay, the last of which is already sufficiently obstructed. In fact this…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 14 to be determined, in order to guide the views of the committee to this quarter. Accordingly the engineers were directed to explore the coast along this bite or bay, and to…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 15 From the general knowledge of the committee, it appeared probable that all these streams could be brought to the canal, and that if the Elk was not sufficient, the whole together…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 16 so that most of the important points were verified by more than one survey, and they were assisted also by different members of the committee, who possessed local information; some of…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 17 straightest practicable direction. It strikes west of Mendenhall's landing, east of Nonsuch marsh, on a small island of fast land of Geo Gray, deceased. 12. Two attempts to carry a line…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 18 28. A line to Court-house point on Elk river. 29. A survey of the ground from Port Penn to Wirts' landing on Back creek, for the purpose of finding the situation…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 19 ever been contemplated from it—viz. a complete supply of stone and of lime for the canal—a very important revenue in bringing down lime for the supply of the peninsula, which is…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 20 were pursued by Mr. Latrobe and Mr. Thomson, with the best assistance that could be obtained. Besides the more precise instructions as to completing the routes already contemplated, the surveyors were…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 21 accordingly made in favor of the upper route, from Welch point to Christiana. The principles on which this route was adopted, are so clearly explained in the first report to the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 22 of the creek, upon the table land on either side. If upon the south side, on Bohemia manor or in fact upon the route from old Court-house point to Port Penn,…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 23 point to the table land, it may be effected without difficulty, and indeed, with such a choice of ground as infinitely to lighten the expense. If the eastern end were to…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 24 turns, for without a suffiicent supply of water there can be no canal at all, I may here be indulged in some particular observations upon the subject. If doubts have been…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 25 that an acre of water 8 feet deep would contain 25 locks full—10 acres 250—and 100 acres 2500. Of such reservoirs, it will be seen provision was intended to be made…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 30 of General Collections copy 26 and the resources of Elk, Christiana, and White-clay creeks together, there cannot I think be any hesitation in the mind of a practical man, upon the subject, especially when we come…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 31 of General Collections copy 27 open to review; all agreed upon the necessity of proceeding without delay to execute the western end of the canal, to bring the waters to it, and to put at rest…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 32 of General Collections copy 28 to accommodate the craft both of the Chesapeake and Delaware, and which is as deep as almost any canal in Europe, or as the water here admitted, or in fact as…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 33 of General Collections copy 29 that if not attended to, was in a great degree to desert the objects of the work altogether. It is well known that the area of country, from the Christiana northward…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 34 of General Collections copy 30 stockholders in the Delaware State was nearly equal to those in Pennsylvania, that the mass of them was in this district, and claimed some attention to their interests upon the same…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 31 thereby preserved from injury, and brought into immediate use. It is to be observed also, that not a particle of stone was to be obtained for the canal itself, but from…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 32 in modern times, from the Mediterranean to the Garonne. But all these attempts were in vain; nothing was executed beyond ditches of a broader capacity in level ground. The difficulties of…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 33 such a canal that vessels should be every where able to pass each other, and accordingly the present canal was designed to be 50 feet wide on the water line and…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 34 works was obtained, of the highest benefit, when they should come to be conducted on a larger scale. If funds had been supplied in a manner commensurate with the operations of…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 35 session, by a committee of the board, who laid before them that statement of facts and observations which is given herewith, in order more particularly to point out the benefit of…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 36 efficient support to their measures, it only served to engender opposition and party opinion for them to move in the business, and this has been the real cause of their silence.…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Gilpin, Joshua
- Date: 1821-01-01