Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-01-08

not quite wide at Its bottom 1t carries every where
OF Utica both lis sides lined with hewcd tmhers in all
other places this is not the The bridges Is
prodgiou within the limits of the incorporated villa &c
OF Utica there are q and the whole distance miles
no, les than one hundred The abutments mostly
formed OF hewn stone and all have painted railing
and elevated feet above -psth
TO the beauty othc voyage There thou
sand tons al shipping employed the aove section Of 96
10 or II feet in width. drawing something less than fee, OF
Waiter They mostly rate nj 10 TONS although saw one of
boarded ceiling keep out rain Each boat rsau,s o
man in the stern 70 steer and another with boat
trace coi and abou, 11 feet in length This rope is M
tened about IS feet aa the bow the side OF The boa,
het boat II the beast very good he advance from 80
!" 40 miles dny-aways walking: The packets pas
quite so long the market craft are sometime wider
passed miles in one Of them he Monezuna) and found
her very convenient vessel Rer cabin forty feet lone
and handsomely furnished Thirty persons nigh, seen COM
s'ss sh. provisions arc quite equal those in
lays Of horses and make hats except land and take in
passengers They nigh, well us by day and make
VOYAGE Of 90 miles in twcnyfour hour The fare
three cents mile and provided with every thing necessa
ry saw psrkr, avn nv fur horses several by three
and none by less that 'vc always tandem All travelling
except by tire tow hores and ootuen are forbidden on The
tow road-T road is about feet wide aud generally re
vate,l two feet above che wafer. When ann
ther the one passing westward stops the horse minute
when the boat still going sackers the rope which,
ing in the water, suffers the eastern pass
two and single accident occurred The
boats being nearly twice long the canal wide Il is
could not turn unless
Tor that purpose This is effected by forming in
numcr Of points on the rou'e within the limits
poraton of Utica there basins each near
an acre of water communicating with canal am, Ing
the same depth of As hamles nrse on the
banks OF the canal-hcse basins will be multiplied. The
hustle and shew Of business exhibited on section of
the canai hut little more than fourth of contemplated
extension, shews what overwhelming industry
must he thrown into action when the shall
but little from those Of that OF Erie In two summers more
the whole will be completed. ard monument raised of ma
tional municence unparalleled in Europe and America,
in Asia only matched by the immense alucu e of
Generations vet TO arise will be astonised when told that
The state OF New York with population short mil
lion and halt alone performed this upendous work.
tPoughkeepse Journal.
The following description OF the wrwnd nj New London
" H. September Q, is handed To for publication hy n gen
uemnn who eyewitness of over that
town. We Will not undertake the pllosopI-
cal principles which the is predicated hut we
publish II giving clear and authentic description of the
appearances OF that remarkable phenomenon:
twas round column nj air hi ghy charged with cleo
hundred rods on the ground filed (about three hundred
eet with fog made of water, which took up out of Lake
Sunapec its color was like smoke a large piece of ccd
wood, Wen on res power 10 remove Two
story buildings with their chimnies feet from
their foundations and then demolished them; and TO take I'M
henoch log ten feet long two feet diameter which would
SINK IN water and carry IT eighty rods, which power
wholly confined within its circumference
II travelled nearly mile minute, and continued ne
long as II could attract from the surroundi
c'ecric matte: Siifioen continue whirnp motion
winch motion probably in of The ot
traction of some highly charged quantity of mir ia
mage in New London S9000n ~