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• In Senate of the United States.
• Report.
• Great Canals, Along the Atlantic Sea Coast.
• I.: Massachusetts Canal.
• II.: New Jersey Canal.
• III.: Delaware and Chesapeake Canal.
• IV.: Chesapeake and Albemarle.
• Communications Between the Atlantic and Western Waters.
• I.: Santee.
• II.: The Lower Or Great Falls of Roanoke.
• III.: James River.
• IV.: Potomac.
• V.: Susquehannah.
• VI.: Ohio.
• Communications Between the Atlantic Rivers, and the River St. Laurence and Great Lakes.
• I.: Hudson and Champlain, Or Northern Navigation.
• II.: Mohawk and Ontario, Or Western Navigation.
• III.: Niagara.
• Interior Canals.
• I.: Merrimack.
• II.: Schuylkill and Delaware.
• III.: Schuylkill and Susquehannah.
• IV.: Appomattox.
• V.: Neuse and Beaufort.
• VI.: Cape Fear River.
• VII.: New Orleans.
• Turnpike, Or Artificial Roads.
• Recapitulation and Resources.
• Circular Queries, By the Secretary of the Treasury, In Order to Obtain Information.
• Queries Respecting Canals.
• Queries Respecting Artificial Roads.
• Mr. Latrobe’s Communication.
• Mr. Fulton’s Communication.

QUERIES RESPECTING CANALS.

1. Points united by canal, and their distance by said canal.

2. Elevation of the highest ground through which canal passes; descent thence to the two extremities; and number of miles where canal is level.

3. Number, dimensions, contents, construction, and situation of locks.

4. Supply of water; whence obtained; its amount reduced to cubic feet per minute, hour or day; its elevation above the highest point of the canal; length of feeders; situation and contents of reservoirs. What additional resources may be resorted to if the present supply should fall short of the quantity wanted?

5. Designation of such parts of the route where the natural or improved bed of rivers is used.

6. Depth and breadth of canal; burthen of vessels; breadth of towing paths.

7. Aqueducts across valleys or rivers; tunnels through hills; bridges across the canal.

8. Particular obstructions and difficulties surmounted or to be encountered.

9. Defects either in the plan or execution, and the proposed remedies.

10. Estimate of the tonnage of vessels; species, weight and value of the articles annually conveyed by the canal; expense of carriage by canal, compared with land or river carriage before canal was made: time employed in navigating through the whole canal.

11. Capital already expended, vested or wanted for completing the work.

12. Expenses per mile and in the whole, and as far as practicable, of every component part of the work in all its details.

13. Rate and gross amount of tolls; annual expenses of repairs and contingencies; annual nett income.

14. Substance of charters and acts of legislature on the subject.