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For almost every phase of the general topic books, monographs,
pamphlets, and articles are to be found in the corners of any great
library, ranging in character from such productions as William
F. Ganong's "A Monograph of Historic Sites in the Province of New
Brunswick" ("Proceedings and Transactions" of the Royal Society of
Canada, Second Series, vol. V, 1899) which treats of early travel in New
England and Canada, or St. George L. Sioussat's "Highway Legislation
in Maryland and its Influence on the Economic Development of the State"
("Maryland Geological Survey," III, 1899) treating of colonial road
making and legislation thereon, or Elbert J. Benton's "The Wabash
Trade Route in the Development of the Old Northwest" ("Johns Hopkins
University Studies in Historical and Political Science," vol. XXI, 1903)
and Julius Winden's "The Influence of the Erie Canal upon the Population
along its Course" (University of Wisconsin, 1901), which treat of the
economic and political influence of the opening of inland water routes,
to volumes of a more popular character such as Francis W. Halsey's "The
Old New York Frontier" (1901), Frank H. Severance's "Old Trails on the
Niagara Frontier" (1903) for the North, and Charles A. Hanna's "The
Wilderness Trail", 2 vols. (1911), and Thomas Speed's "The Wilderness
Road" ("The Filson Club Publications," vol. II, 1886) for Pennsylvania,
Virginia, and Kentucky. The value of Hanna's work deserves special
mention.

For the early phases of inland navigation John Pickell's "A New Chapter
in the Early Life of Washington" (1856), is an excellent work of the
old-fashioned type, while in Herbert B. Adams's "Maryland's Influence
upon Land Cessions to the United States" ("Johns Hopkins University
Studies in Historical and Political Science, Third Series," I, 1885)
a master-hand pays Washington his due for originating plans of
trans-Alleghany solidarity; this likewise is the theme of Archer
B. Hulbert's "Washington and the West" (1905) wherein is printed
Washington's "Diary of September, 1784," containing the first and
unexpurgated draft of his classic letter to Harrison of that year. The
publications of the various societies for internal improvement and state
boards of control and a few books, such as Turner Camac's "Facts and
Arguments Respecting the Great Utility of an Extensive Plan of Inland
Navigation in America" (1805), give the student distinct impressions of
the difficulties and the ideals o