Schuylkill (pron. Skoolkill), a river of Pennsylvania, which rises in the coal region, near Pottsville, and, flowing 130 miles south-east, past Reading and Norristown, empties into the river Delaware at the southern limit of Philadelphia. This city is built on both sides of the Schuylkill, and draws its water-supply from it. Coal-barges ascend the river by dams and locks.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 227
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