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(A Copy)

Executive Office Tennessee
Murfreesboro. June 6. 1825.

Sir;

I am directed by an act of the legislature of
this State passed at their session of 1823 "to commence a
written corrispondence with the Governor of the State of
Alabama and Georgia on the subject of connecting the
waters of Hiwassee with the waters of Coosa by means of a
canal, as well as the practicability of a canal around the
Muscle shoals in the Tennessee, and through what is called
the Tennessee vally [sic] on the south side of said river".

The object to which our legislature expected that
the attention of Gerogia would be most particularly drawn,
was doubtless that of a canal from Hiwassee to Coosa:-
Allow me therefore to request, that you will be pleased
to communciate any information you may have on
the following points.

Is it probable that Georgia would co-operate
with Tennessee in making the canal spoken?

Have you any correct information of the probable
expense of making completing a canal from Hiwassee to
Coosa?

Have you any knowledge of the ground through which
a canal would haue to be cut, the quantity of water
that may be commanded with convenience and the
practicability of the plan? Do you know of a skillful
engineer, who could be procured to make the necessary
examinations of the grounds? Is it likely that