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82 in the superior size of those 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.

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