Excerpt from Pleasant Peregrination Through the Prettiest Parts of Pennsylvania The peaceful Spirit which breathed in the legislation of Penn still lingers on the soil of Pennsylvania, survives the strife of party, and sheds its benign influence on all the public institutions ofthe state. Among other effects of this beneficent spirit may be considered the mra of internal improve ments, which has just commenced. Since 1826, Pennsylvania has expended in the construction ofsix hundred and one miles of canal and slack-water navigation and one hundred and nineteen miles of rail road, the sum of twenty-two millions. Four hundred thousand dollars; and it is sup posed that the amount of tolls collected on these works during the current year, will exceed one million of dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.