Chesapeake and Ohio Canal documents . eSv-O O 248 f ReP- Na 414. J „ Z. In the reports to the House of Representatives of 1827 and 1828, whichaccompanied the bill authorizing the subscription of ten thousand sharesto the stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the committee expressly-stated that, it is on the supply of mineral coal that the committee chieflyrely, in indulging the confident expectation of very great profit on the stockof the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Sufficient space is notallowed, in a report already too far extended, to manifest all the groundsof this confidence. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal documents . eSv-O O 248 f ReP- Na 414. J „ Z. In the reports to the House of Representatives of 1827 and 1828, whichaccompanied the bill authorizing the subscription of ten thousand sharesto the stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the committee expressly-stated that, it is on the supply of mineral coal that the committee chieflyrely, in indulging the confident expectation of very great profit on the stockof the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Sufficient space is notallowed, in a report already too far extended, to manifest all the groundsof this confidence. They are derived from a comparison of the wellknown quality of the Potomac coal, with that which is furnished by theother rivers of the United States; from the comparative facilities ofreaching the elevated banks which supply it, by the canal boats; andfrom a consideration of the various and multiplied uses to which it is ap-plicable. If the District of Columbia, the States of Maryland and Virginia,the river Potomac, or the shores of
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