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higher up the Delaware.

West Point on Hudson River, although a precious link in the chain which binds the States together, has an account of the well known navigation of that river, and the easy access from the Ocean, been considered as an improper place for an extensive magazine. For this reason part of the surplus stores have been removed temporarily to Albany.

During the late War a number of valuable brick buildings were erected at Carlisle in Pennsylvania, as well for the reception of stores, as to accommodate a number of Workmen in the Ordinance Department, but these buildings were not much used, after the apprehensions of invasions subsided owing to the expense and delay occasioned by the land transportation. The same causes still prevent their use in any considerable degree.

The situation of the United States would seem to require that their capital magazines should be established permanently, one for the Southern, one for the Middle, and one for the Eastern States, with such subdivisions as may be deemed indispensable for general use.

It could also seem to be a dictate of sound rational policy that the United States should always possess one hundred thousand arms placed in their respective arsenals, and that the battering and field artillery, and ammunition should be in ample proportion.

It is proposed that all the Canon, Arms, and ammunition required by the United States might be fabricated among ourselves. It is possible the [???] may be greater than if the articles were imported, but this circumstance is not of such moment as to be compared with the solid advantages which would result from extending and perfecting the means

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