American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-06-17

similarity with the river Delaware, below Ns,. 'Sn1
tie; think the lesson OF practical experen,s a
such situations furnish, will be found far NOV" ,"
tul 10 leading the mind to form coriec, ,;.' w
the subject, than any other mode, howey., w.
BILE the theory or than any reasoning how,vr r'y
chile and pertinent the same may appear unl,..,'
ted by Ills niallibie guide.
| concei,2 it must be admitted by every ~.
observation, and by every man, unwsrped .tdaS
fetiered by prejudice, that in any water sm,"
whatever, where there is strong tide nv '".
rent, and which is exposed at the same time NJ
made lee shoie when the wind blows htayily Fl, i
any particular quarter, that alluyions and debn,,
mud will tnrariaJty take place, IN front, or On
sides OF any body SO placed as to cause an ob,,,
ton OF the tide or current, or on which The VIVA
act while blowing from any particular quarter .,
that while this lasts the sediment will be Convex,
with accelerated force and effect, SO as 10 produce
AN Uncomfortable short space OF time, ShocL ut
where before, there was lcater Of a great deph
This has happened in every place have yi,i,
and viii proceed 10 state the situations, when /
reader will be able to form his own opinion ind
pendent OF any intrinsic cause, and without Ispn
on any other help than that plain, common Sen,
with which the Almighty has bountlfulIy supnlsta
.aen.
In the harbor Of Boston, where formerly VA,
great depth Of water at the wharves, it has 81 Gs
up since these have met the current, that wber.l
largest ships could formerly float, there h No
scarcely water for boat and they have been inv.
ting mud mae hines and other contriyanc,s wlho
number, out the grievance Of the expense still n
mans, and he labor will be like that Of Ssyphus
terminahe and without end.
a, Providence and New Port Rhode Island
same causes have produced the like eaecs-t
grass actually e ows along side the whayes at Ne
Port. where some years ago ship Of any bulh
would have Aoated.
A, Norwich, Nav London and New Haven
Connecticut, the wHarves are almost Useless
the latter place at the end of the long wharf,
packet had to be hauled through The mud lhot
when the wharf was last ext, nded, and ii runs gu.
to the bason OF the harbor above hal mile, b
lieve, there was moe than twenty feet water at h
end OF II.
The mud machine has been long in use even
the rapid East Rner al New York, at the old 81
and other places, and the same has hap end
PhIladelp hia--and perhaps on small scale, nGHiD
can be more apropos to the point under distusn
than the WHAT and dock at the Point House. tt
Ferry Company Dad It completely dug out and s
eavaIed by the mud MAJ hins few years ago at ID
expense of several thousand dollars, as hartOfhI
the ieam Boot, it had MeR, from ten TO twelve II
water. This is noic filed up with mud, and rsuds
ed completely useless.
The late Judge Chase, William Bowley and San
uel Yates, OF Baltimore, were the proprirors
Jones's falls, where they empty into the Bason-
They walled the falls up, and employed the mO
machine to dig and clear them out This wasdN
I'LL there was eieren feet Of cater, at an expense
thirty thousand dollars, and they have now not a
Of water in them, and perhaps the expense The co
poratlon OF Baltimore have been at in cleansing al
teePiRg' merely a channel open N the Bason' tor
last twelve or fifteen years. cannot have been Il
than one bundled and fifty thousand dollars auda
expense and trouble is increasing yearly.
At Petersburg, Virginia they paid nearly hF'
thousand dollars to deepen the river, which was On
to nine feet water, and in one fresh, the woos
filed up. AT Norfolk, the rapid tide IN bl1aO.
rIver has not been able to prevent the accum"s'
OF mud. when the current was any way oosius@
SO much so, that many oil the docks had Io 0s IVY
up as useless.
The same thing has happened at Edsnton' no.
Carolina, and at Charleston, south Carolina WIZ
they have been necessitated 10 introduce 'hs n
machine, and thus from Boston 10 Soulh Ca'on
the wharVing into The harbors and rivers has"'e
cably occasioned shoal water This has also laS1
place in the Delaware, at Chester, Marcus h9
and New Castle, where the whar'es are be'oh'
very shallow, and il they continue to hii up AZ"
have done, they must be extended iurthel INV
river or become useless, in consequence Of ny
bid waters in the Delaware in a fresh ava W.
fects off N. f. gale. Surely these tact' ds's'''
serious attention of the Delaware and Ches'P'
Canal Company. If the Canal is to open my. NY
Delaware below New Castle, the digging WI" ",
The end, the smallest Article OF the expenses :"
accumulation Of mud around the basin wn'' W.
De constructed for harbor for the boats eoin..S
going through the Canal, and extended 'aV my
river. will be 50 great that the mud macnI'' ~
inevitably be employed, and when once 'n'. II. a
lroduced, the e.ePense will be ihcatcuse0'ei "oa,
dairy Increasing, and what is of still muc ev'
quence, will in the nature of things. be Pgfpass'
iatermnable. The experience OF Ba'''iO'II
Petersburg ought in this case to be warning :.
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