A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . e Delaware, by theway of Norristown. At the head of thelatter was Robert Morris, the celebratedfinancier. These two companies under-took the work, and proceeded far withit, when, having expended $440,000, theywere embarrassed, and suspended oper-ations. These beginnings, however, re-sulted at length in the completion of theUnion canal. The first tunnels excava-ted in the Union were in first survey for the Chesapeake andDelaware canal was made in 1769, byorder of the American Philosophical so-ciety, and as early as 1804
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . e Delaware, by theway of Norristown. At the head of thelatter was Robert Morris, the celebratedfinancier. These two companies under-took the work, and proceeded far withit, when, having expended $440,000, theywere embarrassed, and suspended oper-ations. These beginnings, however, re-sulted at length in the completion of theUnion canal. The first tunnels excava-ted in the Union were in first survey for the Chesapeake andDelaware canal was made in 1769, byorder of the American Philosophical so-ciety, and as early as 1804, one hundredthousand dollars were expended in theexecution of the work. When the period of railroads arrived,Pennsylvania was again the railroad at Mauch Chunk was thefirst in the Union, excepting only a shorttram-road in Massachusetts. From thatperiod to the present, Pennsylvania hasbeen second to no state in the Union, inexpenditures for constructing these won-derful annihilators of time and space. DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OP DELAWARE. 253. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. DELAAVARE. This state is bounded on thenorth by Chester and Delawarecounties in Pennsylvania, on thenortheast by Delaware bay, on thesoutheast by the Atlantic ocean,on the south by Worcester andSomerset counties in Maryland,and on the west by part of thesame state, viz. : Dorchester, Car-oline, Queen Ann, Kent, and Cecilcounties. It lies along the Atlan-tic coast twenty miles, from CapeHenlopen to Fenwick island. Theentire outline is two hundred andfifty-nine miles ; length, one hun-dred miles ; mean breadth, twenty-one miles; area, two thousand one hundred square miles. It lies between 38^27 and 39° 50 north latitude, and 1° 17 and 20° 0 east longitude from the cityof Washington. The state occupies a long and narrow plane, with a gentle eastern slope to theAtlantic and the bay, with a higher and more uneven region in the north. Theupper portion has a waving rather than a hilly surface, and th
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