Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1823-08-30

<6oantty, and the 6Sf1 leoioue iSIer-|
course Of the citixeos 81, a. u great re-
public, the committee fe{5eilfte their
fellow citizens With he anticipation If
the hdppiest results. 3 3: 8, 81 !:
To our western fsliosf eilizs6s il
Maryland Virgins. Penusy lvsnis, %,
bio, Keptpekys Illinoi6, Iadiapa, and.
20 large portion of the westefn eoup-
sry which is nhtered By tbs Ohio and
Mississippi s1vers great facilities will
be afforded 10 the tran,porta,ion
zafths heavy sud hulky agricultural
prodnetiens, TO choice OF markets rs
good a. aey in the union. To The state OF
Maryland commei ciai advantages will
pc uiIofdcd ofincaiculabIe amount and
Infinite extent-and Baltimore will
rise 70 q pitch Of aggrandizemeu. that
will enable her TO vie with the proudest
stiles In iheunion.
he intereourse with the seat Of the
general government will also be great
" facilitated and Increased, and com
mereiAl prosperity given TO Washing
ton, Georgetown and Alexandria,
which we shall view with great graft
6cation. The committee agree that
the commissioners appointed by the
, state Of Maryla TO survey he later
al canai, have not yet proceeded 80
actual designation of the location
they have, how ever, the qualification
10 inform their fellow citizens, that
the survey so far as it has progressed,
affords every prospect Of success, aud
that the lateral canal running through
| the heart Of Frederick county to Bal
,imore can be effected with great fuel
ity.
The committee have also infinite gra
tifieation in being enabled 10 say, from
a source of infor nation not to be qnes-
(, toned, that the elaborate and hi hly
wrought difficulties in the comrlunica.
ton between the Ohio and the Poto-
uac, which have been so fully pour
trayed by Mr., Kenworiiy in his late
treatise on the subject, have by an ac-
tual survey made %i.hin Il few weeks
| past, been fouud to dwiudle into alb
solute insigei6cnnce. That the " dis
NAL and midnight darkness of q tua-
mel two miles in IenS and two hun
! bred feet in dep,h," has vanished be-
| fore the sunshine OF actual experiment..
That, instead Of a tunoe' of two miles
in length * two hundred feet ia depth,
TO connect the waters of Deep Greek
Ia branch of the YoushasaDy) GU The
{ west side of the moun,ain, with those
! Of Ccab Tree Run or Greek, branch
Of Savage River Oh the eas, side. which
empties into the Potomac, no tunnel at
all is necessary ind the Herculeau
talk which Mr.. K. has adsoi,ly p. epa.
red fur US, is completely superseded bs
the discovery OF u different route across
the mountain. il il but an act OF Jus.
tice to state, TINT this highly impor.
ant discovery has been rna,;e within the
last thirty days by our epterprising
aud nseritorious fellow citizen, Jane.
Shriver, Esq. u gentleman of well
known experience aud scientific ac-
| agreements, app united to mike the sur.
vey in which he is now eng ged with
the laudable and patriotic view of maxi
ing map.of that mountainous part of
the country, which map wi | soon be
published.
According TO this truly interesting
discovery it now appears, that dam a.
cross Deep creek at Hooppole Narrows,
can be constructed at very inconsitera-
BILE expense, SO as by raising the water
about so feet, 20 reduce the cutting 10
the lpwest gap to 20 or at most SO
feet, and this being only al the summit.
the extent OF this depth across will be
ineonsiderabie. That the level ,hrougb
the ridge from the point 10 which
The wates may be easy damned, will
be but about two miles, and the d
verage Of the cutting Tor that dis
taoce by which Tn ample supply If
water will be obtained, will not be
moro than twenty Eve or thirty feet
nfFordiDg an easy Communication with
| the Potomac, and securing the trade Of
the Ohio valley, which with he tributa-
ry streams of the Ohio, alone contains
about 100000 square miles. Let the
citizeus Of Maryland, and particular
iy those of Baltimore ; let also the cit
izeus Of Washington, George town
and Alexandria let also our Yves.
tern brethren pause and reflect on
this momentous disclosure let them
reflect on the close ailiony which il is
calculated to produce, and the infinite
mutual advantages which il will eer.
tainiy insure to our latest posterily--
aud they will join US in saying, that
under such circumstances and consid.
erations, the Allegheny mountain dwiB.
dies iDto mole bill
This information, on which we are
| ehn h.