Your obliging Letter of the 17 Inst,1 together with the interesting Pamphlet respecting the Great Western Canal, arrived by the last mail from New York— accept my thanks for them both.

In my opinion that ^noble^ Enterprise ^[illegible] not only does honor^ does credit to those by whom it was projected, and ^but also^ to those by whose Counsels and Exertions it has been adopted and [illegible] ^commenced^ [.]

Your Statements afford Reason to expect, that the work, in every Part and Respect, will be judiciously contrived and well executed. Should that be the Case, the Results will doubtless correspond with the magnificence^tude^, and also manifest the Utility, of the Design. I am, Sir, Your obliged and obt. Servt.—