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... mile below the proposed dam , which will enable the river craft to pass into the canal , from whence they can again ... miles , there is no serious impediment to the na vigation of the river . Its natural course is obstructed by shoals ...
... mile below the proposed dam , which will enable the river craft to pass into the canal , from whence they can again ... miles , there is no serious impediment to the na vigation of the river . Its natural course is obstructed by shoals ...
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... miles in length , the water line of which is sixty feet , bottom width thirty - six feet , depth six feet , and a descent of two inches per mile , with one lock of ten feet lift . The mean velocity of such a feeder is 10.5 inches per ...
... miles in length , the water line of which is sixty feet , bottom width thirty - six feet , depth six feet , and a descent of two inches per mile , with one lock of ten feet lift . The mean velocity of such a feeder is 10.5 inches per ...
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... mile , per minute , for the few first years after the introduction of the water ; the banks however have become compact ... miles , the average lift of the locks is 7.4 feet , nearly , and the maximum trade is assumed at one hundred and ...
... mile , per minute , for the few first years after the introduction of the water ; the banks however have become compact ... miles , the average lift of the locks is 7.4 feet , nearly , and the maximum trade is assumed at one hundred and ...
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... miles below Easton , but the quantity of water which it affords when a supply is most needed , is so small as not to be worthy of estimating . It being ascertained both by theory and experience , that the Lehigh is insufficient to ...
... miles below Easton , but the quantity of water which it affords when a supply is most needed , is so small as not to be worthy of estimating . It being ascertained both by theory and experience , that the Lehigh is insufficient to ...
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... miles of small calibre wooden , with Should the conditions of this section of the contract a few iron pipes , supplied the city with water , -in with the Schuylkill Navigation Company be put in force , 1834 upwards of 78 miles of iron ...
... miles of small calibre wooden , with Should the conditions of this section of the contract a few iron pipes , supplied the city with water , -in with the Schuylkill Navigation Company be put in force , 1834 upwards of 78 miles of iron ...
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Página 284 - If an elective Republic is to endure for any great length of time, every elector must have sufficient information, not only to accumulate wealth and take care of his pecuniary concerns, but to direct wisely the legislature, the ambassadors, and the Executive of the nation — for some part of all these things, some agency in approving or disapproving of them, falls to every freeman. If, then, the permanency of our Government depends upon such knowledge, it is the duty of government to see that the...
Página 164 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Página 163 - The principal tenet of the Tunkers appears to be this : That future happiness is only to be obtained by penance and outward mortifications in this life ; and that, as Jesus Christ, by his meritorious sufferings, became the Redeemer of mankind in general, so each individual of the human race, by a life of abstinence and restraint, may work out his own salvation.
Página 381 - That such power to punish contempts shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person in their presence, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, the misbehavior of any of the officers of said courts in their official transactions, and the disobedience or resistance by any such officer, or by any party, juror, witness, or other person, to any lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree or command of the said courts.
Página 381 - States to issue attachments and inflict summary punishments for contempts of court, shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of the said courts...
Página 163 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Página 303 - Resolved by the House ofHepresentatives, that the Prothonotaiy of the District court for the city and county of Philadelphia, be instructed to report to this House, at as early a day as possible...
Página 284 - ... present system, the children of such men are reduced almost to an intellectual level with their colaborers of the brute creation. This law will be of vast advantage to the offspring of such misers. If they are compelled to pay their taxes to support schools, their very meanness will induce them to send their children to them to get the worth of their money. Thus it will extract good out of the very penuriousness of the miser. Surely a system which will work such wonders, ought to be as greedily...
Página 138 - Indians. On the first arrival of the English in Pennsylvania, messengers from this tribe came to welcome them, with presents of venison, corn and skins ; and the whole tribe entered into a treaty of friendship with the first Proprietary, William Penn ; which was to last as long as the sun should shine, or the waters run in the rivers APPENDIX.