LETTER CXXXII.--TO GENERAL WASHINGTON, May 2, 1788
TO GENERAL WASHINGTON.
Paris, May 2, 1788.
Dear Sir,
I am honored with your Excellency's letter by the last packet, and thank
you for the information it contains on the communication between the
Cayahoga and Big Beaver. I have ever considered the opening a canal
between those two water courses, as the most important work in that
line, which the state of Virginia could undertake. If will infallibly
turn through the Potomac all the commerce of Lake Erie, and the country
west of that, except what may pass down the Mississippi; and it is
important that it be soon done, lest that commerce should, in the mean
time, get established in another channel. Having, in the spring of the
last year, taken a journey through the southern parts of France, and
particularly examined the canal of Languedoc, through its whole course,
I take the liberty of sending you the notes I made on the spot, as you
may find in them something perhaps, which may be turned to account, some
time or other, in the prosecution of the Potomac canal.
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