Pennsylvania contains three cities, Philadelphia, Lan caster, and Pittsburg, and about forty borough towns; the principal of which are Reading, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Easton, and west of the mountains Greensburg, Browns ville, Washington, and Meadville.
The canal and lock navigation companies which have been organized, and to the stock of which the state has subscribed, the extent of the improvements contemplated, and the amount of individual and state subscriptions is annexed.
ENteat cr Indi.idnat State improvement. subscription. subscription.
Union Canal, 71 miles 5400,000 550,000 Schuylkill Nay. 117 948,000 50,000 Monongahela, 90 18,360 30,000 To which add the cost of the Conewago canal, private property, estimated at 5:220,000, and the peobable amount expended by White and Company, on the Lehigh, of SI50,000, together 5370,000, exclusive of the expenditure on the Schuylkill and Susquehannah, and Delaware and Schuylkill. The amount of expenditures on this branch of internal improvement will be 51,916,510.
The number of miles of turnpike roads, contemplated by the charters of the incorporated companies, is 2521, of which there have been completed 1807 ; of these 1250 are of stone, having on their surface no angle greater than. four and a half or five degrees.
When the woks now in progress shall be completed there will be two complete stone roads from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, 300 miles each in length, one of which is already finished. One continued road from Philadelphia to the town of Erie, through Sunbury, Bellefonte, Philips burg, Franklin, and Meadville, two roads having but a few miles of turnpike deficient from Philadelphia, one to the New York state line, in Bradford county, passing through Berwick, and one to the northern part of the state in Susquehannah county passing through Bethlehem. One continued road from Pittsburg to Erie, passing through Butler, Mercer, Meadville, and Waterford.
Many bridges of great strength and beauty are con structed, and constructing, over the principal rivers, that intersect the state. We have annexed an alphabetical list of those, for which companies have been incorporated, and to which the commonwealth has subscribed, and the length of the bridges.
Length of Bridge Riven. between Abutments.
Feet.
Allegany at Pittsburg, - - - - 1122 Connemaugh, on Northern haute, - - - 295 French Creek, on Franklin, - 300 Monongahela, at Pittsburg, - - - - 1500 Schuylkill, at I'ottstown, - • - - 340 Susquehannah, at M'Call's Ferry, . . - 600 Do. Columbia, 5690 Do. Ilarrisburg, - - - 2876 Do. Northumberland, - - - 1325 Do. Lewisburg, - - - 1120 Do. Nescopeck, - - - 1256 Do. Wilkesbarre, - - - 7J0 The amount of individual subscriptions to the above is 1,629,200 dollars, and that of the state 382,000 dollars.
If all these subscriptions, appropriations, and indivi dual expenditures for roads, bridges, canals, &c. are add ed, the amount will be 10,369,779 dollars.
In addition to the above, there are two very handsome bridges over the Schuylkill ; for a particular description of them, the reader is referred to the article Philadelphia, in this number.
We regret not being able to furnish a correct statement of the present manufacturing establishments in this state. In 1810, the manufactured articles amounted to near 34,000,000 dollars. There has been a very great increase since that time.
The chief articles manufactured are cottons, articles of leather, ardent spirits, tanned leather, cordage, wrought and cast iron, nails, woollens, ships, hats, cabinet work, flour, slit iron, paper, soap, muskets, brass and copper, jewelry, bricks, carriages, duck, &c.
The commerce of Pennsylvania with the eastern and southern states, is in an of articles, which are too numerous to be recited. That with car ried on by land, and by the Ohio and lake Erie, and is ex tensive with the Indian tribes. The value of exports from the state in 1791, was 3,436.092 dollars ; in 1795, 11,513,260 dollars ; in 1799, 12,431,907 dollars ; in 1810, 10,993,393 dollars ; in 1822, 9,047,802 dollars ; in 1823, 9,363,736 dollars. The imports in 1322, amounted to 11,874,170 dollars ; and in 1823, to 13,696,770 dollars. The tonnage of the state amounted, in 1796, to 98.237 tons ; in 1809, to 121,443 tons ; and in 1810, to 125,128 tons.