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M short it is evident that the only means to secure to N York the incalculable advantage of the

                     future commerce

of the L(?) is to open the whole route along the Seneca Otrego(?) O(?) and Mohawk river on a grand (?); if partial improvement only are made, the obstruction left will re(?) them of little avail, an (?) non-increase of the trade at Rome in the (?) 12 year has sufficiently (?) notwithstanding the immense increase of population and produce during that period in the surrounding country.

           The (?) having