Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-01-27


vet to be made.
He knew Of no experience from whici
;;u.iymenr could be formed. he hao
{cea al Venice above twenty ihips OF Wal
10 the arlcnai, completely under cover,
each laying aAoat IN lis own dock, with
aores On each tide, in which thelr mate
rails were depohted. He was told thai
he Whole number could be pr 10 tea ii.
twenty or thirty days notice. lie oll
not believe thar a dock one toot above the
tide on dry graveily ground, and OF iize
10 contain fhips, when covered over,
would be place 70 damp, that noshing
you'd dry. lie believed shaG 1t the gar.
oord Nrsakes Of each IMP were taken OFT,
and freaks, taken off their ceiling al
noper intervals, thar current OF dry
air would be introduced tuf2ic;ens &c.
keep the fhips fweet- experience Only.
could fhcw whether here would DC enoughi
to dry the1nnosrs completely for hirleHI
he doubted. As 10 the quantity OF water
10 the 1iber being inluhlciepf, that OBJ
jetiion was done away by the Teiervolrs'
contemplated. He had 70 great refpettI
for The engineer, that ne did nor believe
ne would commence a plan Of this impor-
tance, unlels he was certain OF facets. he
would not commit his character without
every probability Of fucceeding. Mr.. S.
iaid he knew she fpot, and believed that
nature had feldom pointed out one more
proper than that contemplated. The faa-I
ern Branch was central, the wafer deep,
and being 70 freh as TO turnifh lhips tor
their voyage, could never be affected by
he worm the difance from the iea,
makes ii fate agqlntt any immediate or
fndden froke Of an enemy Of courie Pc
culiarly proper for buildings fhips of war.
The Potomac aud other waters of the
CheEapeake, offer great fupplies of the
oea oak, walnt, locpf and muiberry.-
The mats got in the neighborhood OF
Norfolk. are inferior to none. Sufque-
hanna offers an inexaaueaale fore OF zine
for mats and fpars. There, and there
only, could be procured the MATS for Al
qiers. North- Carolina is in IT'S vicinity
10 fopqiy naval flores, and on the Poto-
mac mines ofthc bea iron ore are known
and worked. He believed il a faf ado
mitted, that The oak CT the Chefapeake,
and particularly Of the Eat and North
ivers of Virginia, lated in lhps nearly
double the time that the oak Of the EAT.
orn fhips did. He believed that the IL
1usfry of our Eai}ern brethren had nearly
exhauaed their beG timber; tor ii he had
eeen rightly informed, the keel OF the
Contribution, built in BoAon, was bro't
from jerfey.
7 h. gentleman will admit all this, bur
he aiks where are the men They are 70
be had on an exigcncy no wtere but in
!argetown Wherever, faid Mr.. S. there
is plenty of work, and plenty Of money
to pay, there men will 60 they will be
brought from the ea&ern fares, and from
the rivers Of the Chefapeake commence
auiiiing, give employment, and men will
not be waiting. The que!tion is, whether
il is cheaper 10 bring the men to the fPot
where all the materials are, or to carry
the materials TO the men. Bat the water
of the Potomack is not efficiently deep
for fhips of war. 1t was deeper, he be-
lieved, than the Delaware, and as deep
AS the entrance to New York, he was
informed that the fhip CONFEDERATION touch
ed going out of that port. It was true
thar it was deemed prudent to Tighten the
large frigates, when they came up the Po-
tomack, but ii is believed thoie of n feet
draft would have been in no danger, bad
they come up without. 1t is true that the
navigation of this river is fomefimes tedi.
Gus, but never dangerous, that the Chela-
peake is inferior 70 no inland NAVIGATION. !