... conventions. The surveys cover every foot of the proposed James River Canal extension to the Ohio Valley, which, by general consent, seems to be regarded as the most eligible because it is the most direct central route, and because the State of Virginia has most munificently offered to remand the half-completed work to the general government on the ... — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 • Various