. The Southern States. ighteen years afterBraddocks defeat, in 1773, BenjaminFranklin and Governor Pownall, withThomas Walpole, Samuel Wharton andother English gentlemen, advertised inLondon for proposals for the impro^•e-ment of navigation on the Potomac andendeavored to influence the Britishgovernment to establish a new province west of the Alleghany range on thewaters of the Great Kanawha andMonongahela rivers. Following this,however, came our Revolution, duringwhich such matters could not receiveattention at home or abroad. At itsclose General Washington, who hadalways taken an active inte

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. The Southern States. ighteen years afterBraddocks defeat, in 1773, BenjaminFranklin and Governor Pownall, withThomas Walpole, Samuel Wharton andother English gentlemen, advertised inLondon for proposals for the impro^•e-ment of navigation on the Potomac andendeavored to influence the Britishgovernment to establish a new province west of the Alleghany range on thewaters of the Great Kanawha andMonongahela rivers. Following this,however, came our Revolution, duringwhich such matters could not receiveattention at home or abroad. At itsclose General Washington, who hadalways taken an active interest in planslooking toward the improvement of theriver, and who was thoroughly familiarwith the subject, wrote a letter regardingit to Thomas Jefferson on March 29,1784, saying: More than ten yearsago I was struck with the importanceof it, (the improvement of the riv^r),and despairing of any aid from thepublic I became a principal mover in abill to empower a number of subscribersto undertake at their own expense the. MONOCACY AQUEDUCT. 284 THROUGH THE SOUTH WITH A CAMERA.

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