You have weighed this determination, and it would be impertinence in me to touch it.

But would the superintendence of this work break in too much on the sweets of retirement and repose?
If they would, I stop here.

Your future time and wishes are sacred in my eye.

If it would be only a dignified amusement to you, what a monument of your retirement would it be! It is one which would follow that of your public life, and bespeak it the work of the same great hand.

I am confident, that would you either alone, or jointly with any persons you think proper, be willing to direct this business, it would remove the only objection, the weight of which I apprehend." [Sidenote: Recommends the opening and improving the inland navigation of the great rivers in Virginia.] In the autumn of 1784, General Washington made a tour as far west as Pittsburgh; after returning from which, his first moments of leisure were devoted to the task of engaging his countrymen in a work which appeared to him to merit still more attention from its political, than from its commercial influence on the union.