American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-11-25
GRAND cANAL OF NEw.YoRE.

! Atlantic ocean, is Of great Importance, and coming
rom the pen Of he aresi,ent 1T ire Canal Cora
m,sioners. it may be regarded AZ o.ti5eiai -
From the Ciucm4atl Erql1lcan
NEW-YORK CANAL.
coov of letter from the Jlon. De VIII, Clinton, 10
cant. James Riley, of Van Went county, ohio.
ALBAuY, 9th Sep, 1925.
Sir-I have received your letter Of he 18th of
August am happy 10 hear OF your welfare and
comfortable establishment and hasten 10 answer the
/ important inquiries, contained in your communica-
ten .
The Western Canal, 500 miles in extent will be
finished this year, except about thirty miles at its
western extremity, from Lockport to Buffalo, which
will be completed next year The Northern Canal,
extending from Lake Champlan to the Hudson,
and uniting with the Western about miles north
Of Albany, will also be finished the presen, season.
ANY map Of this state, recently published, will
designate the route Of the Canal, and its connection
with The lakes aud rivers of the region through
which it passes.
There are 81 locks in the whole distance 26
from Albany to Schenectady Is from Schenectady
to Utica % from Utica to Rochester and from
Rochester to Buffalo. In this do not count guard
locks Of FIVE to set OF double and combined locks
! al Iockport.
Vessels Is feet long and Is wide may navigate
The chanel and pass the locks with facility, and will
moi draw more than | 2 or / 5 inches OF water when
loaded. The canal is 40 feet wide and feet deep.
twenty-five tons considered tull load for
one horse, and twenty-five miles a. days work.-lf
above 25 and so tons, two horses used and the
distance 25 10 so miles per day.
The boats whiCh have been built expressly for
the Canal, will carry from so to 40 tons and pre-
sumo, that vessels may be used conveying 100 tons
The transportation of ton of -four from Buffalo
hv h. will
dollars freight and toll ncluded.-By land it would
cost 500.
The tolls are for salt and gypsum, so cents per
ION. for 100 miles; for produce, $50, and Tor mer
chandze, 500 cents.
The revenue from tolls last year, was upwards Of
| $4,000 this year i, will probably, by 100000
All vessels may navigate the Canal, whether be-
longing to citizens OF this state, or not, paying
| The transit duties.
/ am, with high respect, your most ob't servent.
DE WITT CLINTON.
Since the Eastern section Of the Canal was finish
ed only weeks ago. no less than 900 boats, loaded
with the productions Of the west, have arrived at
Albany, and among the articles which have reached
New-Yoik quantity Of white wood boards have
been received for the use of cabinet makers and
coach builders, OF greatly superior quality and
much larger in width than any wood OF that descip-
lion formerly brought to that market. Every day,
indeed, brings new proofs Of the vast advantages
which the city and the state at large is deriving
from this splendid work, and the one halt is not
told. Baltimore american.
The following description Of the great aqueduct
BY which The Erie Canal crosses the Genessee river.
was furnished to The Rochester Telegraph, by d.
bates, Esl the engineer on that section OF the
cana.
,Ip;c xul,,r ENrpn NM INF
link in the great chain Of our midland communities.
ton is built on one of the riffs which compose a
part Of the extensive falls Of the Genessee river,
abou eighty rods south OF its greatest fall. 1t is
situated neatly in The centre OF the village OF Ro.
chester, parallel to the great leading western road
and crLsses the Genessee river about eighty yards
south Of It. The approach OF the Erie Canal to the
tennessee river, from the east, is Tor considera-
Ole distance confined to a steep, bold bank al the
iool OF which formerly run raceway. i his aTtl-
ilclal intercourse, on the immediate bank OF the
river, was compelled TO give place to the Eric Ca
nal and has been placed outside OF IT, till at the in
slant OF its crossing it is passed under II In an arch
OIL twentysix ieet chord The natural and artificial
scenery, here presented is grand and peculiarly in
eresting. The river, with its rapids, is surmount-
tdby The race above mentioned: which, in lie torn,
nsurmouned by the Erie Canal, which is again
OseTtopped by the table land i'll the vicinity, the
extreme edge Of which is an important street the
village Of East Rochester The Aqueduct, from the
eastern extremity Of its parapet walls 10 its western
termination is 804 feet long, and is built on eleven
srches; one above named Of twentysiX feet chord,
under which passes the water necessary for number
o. important Touring mills, sc. nine of fifty feet
chord and the west side OF the river OF thirty
ee' chord under which passes water for number
Of houring mills and other hydraulic establish.
menls in West Rochester. The structure is found
Cd on solid rock, in which nitches cut to found
HE piers, which thirty feet long and ten feet
wide including al each end pedestal and dome,
Out OF which rises d plaster. The height of the
llnls ~ .ri.