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Canals.
Gen. Philip Schuyler may justly be regarded as the father of the United States canal system.
As early as 1761, when he was in England settling the accounts of Gen. John Bradstreet with the government, he visited the famous canal which the Duke of Bridgewater had just completed, and became profoundly impressed with the importance of such highways in the work of developing the internal resources of his own country.
On his return, he urged the matter upon the attention of his countrymen.
Meanwhile the active mind of Elkanah Watson (q. v.) had been deeply interested in the subject.
In 1785 he visited Mount Vernon, where he found Washington engaged in a project for connecting the waters of the Potomac with those west of the Alleghany Mountains.
He and General Schuyler projected canals between the Hudson River and lakes Champlain and Ontario, and in 1792 the legislature of New York chartered two companies, known, respectively, as the Western inland lock navigation Company