Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-10-02
CnEsAPEAEE AND ONO CANAL

a ser.es Of essays has appeared in the Ma
tioaal late lisencer this interesting subiec
which we regret our inability, Fl ON want OF room
to spread a, large before readers.--We select
the following, embracing great mass Of yslu
ale information. - Enquirer.
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.
Having, prior 10 any analysis of the sources of
proht upon the New York Canals, maintained
that he nett revenue from that which connects
Albany ith Lake Erie, is eight per cent. on the
sum HIGH that Canal would have cost, had it
Eoi Teen constructed without the benefit of ex-
peFiencr, and when every article required for il
was al Tie highest pIice: and having, in that ana
iysis, shown, tlat every article which s.vells the
profit OF this Canal is be found on The Potomac
aud The nsyis gable waters empty ing into it, water
Line, gypsum, and salt, only excepted: ! proceed
10 show, IN the next lace, the relative capacity
OF the ter.iitIies Bordering those Canals, to
supply The Articles ccmnoa 10 both; and TO com-
Pare them, IN thoss Particulars ia which either
may claim superiority over the other, in the
number or quantity, we'll QusIiiy Of the ar,i-
cles which they respectively furnish. Cae OBJ
ssfva.!on, already limited. respecting the plans of
those canals, ought not 20 be forgotten 1t relates
10 Their relative dimensions. The Erie Canal is
iSry leet wide al The surface, TWEEN y-eisht at bot
ION, and four feet deep The ordinary breadth
and depth OF the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, we
hdve stem, exceeds those proportions, by eight
ieeI Tor Tie former, and one foot for the latter
i'heieVer easy excavation occurs this excess of
bI eadii VIII be extended to twenty feet. The
Caiied States Engiaeeis have demonstrated tina,
the superior dimensions CT the Chesapeake and
Ono Canal VIII or comparison with those OF
ide Few York Canal, atone for all the Iockaee
necessary to overcome rise ADD ia!l, together,
oil near three uOusand two hund Ell feet. Pui
ihe Eastern section of the Ch-sspeake and Ohm
Csnal, III distance OF o,e hun L Ell bud eighty six
miles, has Gsii OF bat i've iIaIreI and seventy
eight feet. On hat part Of this Caaal, therefore
thls advantage VIII have nothing to ,ieract from
re inf IL L.. I'll.
ished resistance vi The boats, aAd, consequently
iie!r superior eocity burlhen; calculated TO eff
isct cOirespOnlen reduction of the price Of
ie'ghi, 10y shortening the time Of each voyage or
allowing much greater weight TO De transported
ia given time that j., wi h given yeIocjtr
Ahe breadth OF he boat being thirteen and half
iee,, and The Canal sixty feet wide aal FIVE deep,
two horses would draw boat, with given load
as ed-ily ss she on Canal bat forty feet wide
and four feet deep. By INCREASING the tonnage
which can pas II IN gwen time, the Canal Of
larger Dimensions afford 10 charge j lover
Toll foT IL
To proceed 10 adyon ages Jet more obvious TO
common Observers. In the present condition oil
The respsc i've counties which do or may be ex. !
pec'td 20 Jeli supplies TO ihe Chesapeake aud
ONO, aad 10 tie Erie Canal It should be noticed
;adt the extent Of tbs former, If the Lakes are
excluded tIou The conpafi-on, u.uch exceeds Ina,
81 the later. trenches from both Canals NAV be
CONSTRUCTED, II Is Tue, TO great advantage and
New York, with c,mmendable enterprise, ba,
already begun seyeful. Ba', setting aside Fri.
and lis tributary rve.s and hlse4 land tbei,
present rroducuyensss was c rrecuy measured
by The tolls received al BaiFIO end Black Rock !
ANev York has 90 navigation leading from the r. IL
canal into The lnter of her own territory, or
that OF her Hesh50r5 OF any very great extent AMI
none whatever at ell parable with that OF the
SOuih brsnch 81 tie Potomac, which is nayigable |
al present, for one hundred and forty miles; and
Inc ohenandoah, which, with is North branch is |
already nayigable for more than two hundred and
iarty mics. Added 10 these, are s&eans Of con
siderable magnitude nsvigable TO the Potomac.
from ibg very heart of the richest limestone vaI
ieys IN tue United Stales, the Monocacy, the !
Anue' am, and Conosocbeagus, in Maryland. and /
the Opciusn, Cscapehpn, and Patterson, 10 Vjr
ginis. All those sTearDs, together, aGord a !
rnsiu river, Of lhan FIVE hundred miles
.fne county which they drain il OIL also, ete,.
breadth, TIE eye viii readily discover on torn-
ins 10 lhs map. WITH much inarable mountain
30 sigh from their banks, and sometimes washed (
bJ then currents, hey wind through very exica !
sive iIacis Of fine gram lands. The Canal Of I
Sew ork' on he other hand. has Lske OntsHo
very near 20 as Northern border, for consider. I
be distance, Ind holds. by Precafions tenure
any cOmUieice which y mag draw from the opposfte
Jsnsdian frontier
Basins briefly described the itofnac cosn,,v
and is channels q Commerce its pfoluetton.
merit gard and, hfsi, thoss oi IL vast, an1
may sly, uexblustibis forests.
Nsa tWo-ihifds Of he descsnl.ng tonnaze o, 4
Use k.de Canal derived, ws have seen, from (
r. sire -7sfee How org lsis suar,v n,sy