American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-08-15
FoR the AMERICAS wATcuMAN.

| Mr.. WILsoN.--In Tuesdays paper" A. T." has
favoured US with another essay the subject OF the
|" Chesapeake and Delaware Contemplating 10
be reply some observations that have made on
the same subject. desire to inform A. H." that
Iif have hauerea him it was not Intentional and
with all my inventive genius" am not able to-
see how to laugh al mans folly, or vanity, or any
Iother frivolity, is to Batter him. 1t however, he
feels himself nattered by any thing that have said
rejoice, because | presume that l have PteaSed
him, and hope at the same time that the portion
will set easy on his stomach.
have not so much rated the size of the ba
sin necessary TO protect the navigation of the canal
as he infers-nor had ever any intention of sug-
costing that a basin of any dimensions should be
formed TO protect vessels in the canal: il can only
be designed for their security after they ont oil
liz His so acre basin with A." an halt mile back OF
st. Georges marsh" may be sufficiently deep for
the RATS and small boats, ard in time OF storm
and at high tide too, | have no hesitation in be-
lieyipc would be found too deep: but if he means,
by saving that s. the canal itself would be harbor
for the larger vessels that they, after they have left
the canal, should, on the approach OF storm, in
stead Of sharing the protection OF the basin with
/" the RATS and small boats" return again into the
canal to seek it, proves that he is guilty OF Sc
rious error in Judgment, and that he has no conf
dence in the safety to be afforded by his Jty acre
basin (! For il large vessels are not secure IN l
but are obliged to return TO the canal Tor harbor
he will find few of us stupid enough to believe that
" small boats and rafts'' can be protected through
storm that large vessels cannot ride out. Hence
all the money, according 10 his own reasoning,
which is expended in erecting fifty acre baStn VIII
lbe thrown uselessly away. But as regards the ao-
stract principle of utility in basin OF any Kind'
where he proposes to locate it, his reasoning is cor
rect for neither basin OF so acres nor one OF ooo
will protect the navigation OF the canal out all YES
sells both large and small will be obliged to return 10
lii for harbor, and thus efectuay put an emu 10 inc
lobect of its establishment. But the difference IN
our das as regards the size Of the basin, originates
lin ,hr different estimates that we have made on the
TRADE Of the canal When spoke OF basin OF 3oO
Iacres NV mind was traversing the shores OF inc
[Christana. and viewing them lined with rats and
canal craft for or miles up from its mouth ana
l;F il be IS chains wide, miles of it will make 900
acres but had estimated the trade OF .he canal
las 6 A. r." has done on the deep cut Iou'c'
should not even have extended my basin 70 on acres'
lbut have reduced it to one tenth OF that number
EN- bal;av;ne that such one would contain all the
Icrai,. &c. that will pass the canal; but at the
apor time should assert that basin there oil no KIND
8 or dimensions can protect them.
Il Soroe men through all their folly display eViuen
i cps If candor regret this cannot be said oil n
lZ,' Witness his observations on the expense OF
. cutting the canal through the - miles OF his'
Glands. Does he suppose that the whoe oep,l,
as feet can be made at 10 Cts per CUBIC yaro Doe'
, h. No, know that the average depth according Z
i Mr. Ia,robe is as feet? And does he not know tina
NJ atrohe,s estimate has not yet been found to BE-
,ronpousa But it is not necessary to say any 'hinl
more now on this part Of the subject, and therefore
e refrr A, Nv, with my readers, to my former
- observations upon it. presuning that ny compar
son between our statements there will be no dtcul
~ in discovering that he IS not des'rous 70 uispa,
havs no obiecon 10 state my ideas Of the Prota6L
COST cost Of the upper route, for the benefit Of" A. ~