. The construction con- tended for by the plaintiffs in error would be an exclusion of the citizens of our sister States from these foun- tains of health, unwarranted by any principle of humanity or policy, or the spirit and letter of the law." In his Congressional reminiscences of Mr. Stevens, the late

AN EARLY CANAL PROJECT The writer's interest in the early waterways and inland navigation of Lancaster county was somewhat quickened recently by reading an un- published letter, written at Harris- burg, August 12, 1824, to Richard B. McCabe, of Huntingdon, by Persifor Frazer, of the notable family

autobiographical notes that he ever entertained any notion of leaving Lancaster or that there was any such incident between his admission to the Bar and his early entry into public life. Moreover, on September 13, 1813, we find his father, writing to James, then at Lancaster, giving an account of how a Federalist