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Show A Settler. When tho Erie canal was first started, the subject of investing inves-ting in it was discussed in a Quaker business meeting of the men. It was opposed by an influential member no other than EHas Hicks on the ground of its being a speculation. Among other objections, he urged that "When God created the world, if he had wished canals he would have made them." Upon this, a "weighty friend" (a Quaker term) rose up and said slowly, in the intoning voice in which the Quakers always speak in meeting, "And Jacob digged a well," and sat down. Ex. |