. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. month before(September 6) a model of a double boat, which, by the applica-tion of mechanical power to setting poles, was intended tomoke way against a rapid stream by the force of the samestream. This exhibition drew a certificate of approval fromWashington (September 7), but Rumsey soon abandoned thisdevice for another, as we shall later see. Note.— The opposite map is Washingtons sketrli (17S4) of the divide between the Potomacand the Yo
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. month before(September 6) a model of a double boat, which, by the applica-tion of mechanical power to setting poles, was intended tomoke way against a rapid stream by the force of the samestream. This exhibition drew a certificate of approval fromWashington (September 7), but Rumsey soon abandoned thisdevice for another, as we shall later see. Note.— The opposite map is Washingtons sketrli (17S4) of the divide between the Potomacand the Youghiogheny, as engraved in U. S. Docs., XIX. Cong., 1st Session, House of Report,No. 228. The committee making tills report point out that the road (dotted line) from Cumber-land to the Youghiogheny is almost precisely the route of the later Cumberland road, and the dotted line A B, across the Dividing Ridge, is almost identical with the recommendation of the government engineers (182G) for the course of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. These corre-spondences the committee consider to be proofs of the insight of this great and If 254 THE INSECURITY OF THE NORTHWEST. This letter to Harrison was communicated to the VirginiaAssembly, and led to the formation of the James River andPotomac Canal Company. By December, 1784, the projectof such an organization was well in hand, and Washington wentto Annapolis to consult with the Assembly. Shortly afterwards(January 5, 1785) he wrote, from Mount Vernon, to GeneralKnox that the bills which had been prepared both for the Vir-ginia and for the Maryland legislatures, in which each State hadpledged £1,000 to the project, were drafted to his liking. Theplan end traced two measures. One was to clear a road, sayforty miles in length, from the north branch of the Potomac toCheat River, an affluent of the Monongahela, — a route whichJefferson considered the true door to the western other scheme was to carr
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