MEMOIRS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. CHAPTER XIX. {Continued.) the twenty* kifth congress. June ist, 1S38.-On going to the House this morning, I told my coachman, Thomas, if lie should come for me this evening, not to come til) ten o'clock. There was a resolution two or three days ago reported from the Committee of Commerce, calling upon the Secretary of War to make report at the next session of Congress of a survey of Lake Erie. As soon as it was before the House, Lake Huron was added to it by way of amendment. Bronson then moved to add Lake Ontario. Others moved for Lakes Michigan and Superior. After some discussion upon each of these amendments, Whittlesey, of Ohio, moved as a substitute a joint resolution authorizing the President to cause surveys to be made of such parts of Lakes Ontario, Erie, St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, and Champlain. with their bays, rivers, and straits, as arc within the United States. Wise then moved to include the waters of Chesapeake Bay and the creeks adjacTable...

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