We  find  him  promoting,  and  chiefly  directing,  one  of  the  most
beautiful  and  most  useful  improvements  in  the  State.  I  allude  to
the  permanent  means  of  communication,  created,  in  the  year  1803,
between  the  city  and  the  country,  by  the  erection  of  the  great
bridge  over  the  Schuyikill,  at  the  end  of  Market  Street.
Judge  Peters,  the  first  President  of  the  company  at  whose  ex-
pense it  was  built,  commenced  his  service  in  this  work  with  a  zeal
and  courage  which  alone  could  conquer  the  natural  difficulty  of  the
water  piers ;  and,  it  is  proper  to  notice  here,  as  illustrative  of  that


RICHARD    PETERS.
gentleman's  sagacity  and  foresight,  that  to  his  perseverance  (I  had
almost  said  iiHtnaijt m<  nf],  do  we  owe  the  permanency  of  that
bridge.
