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5461. MONOPOLY, Western trade.—

The Ohio and its branches, which head up
against the Potomac, afford the shortest water
communication by five hundred miles of any
which can ever be got between the western
waters and Atlantic; and, of course, promise
us almost a monopoly of the Western and
Indian trade.—
To James Madison. Ford ed., iii, 402.
(A. Feb. 1784)