The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-08-08

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work, of which not stone laid the preparations
completed for laying the foundations the period Of o @
mer VISIT nearly completed II will be finished in ortniaS
and the greatest work the kind in this quarter of
that s in either North South America Nv me,n O' ~
this aqueduct the canal will be carried deem roc
gulf by single arch of hewn sone of eighty feet span S5
foryye feet radius The height OF the supersrucure from
the base is fifty feet six inches The length of the aqueduc
is one hundred and thrytve feet II noble structure
and the situation skingy interesting and picturesque
From the Falls few rods above, power for mills and
anufactores, is at hand any And these NAV h
located that boats be laden and unaden without oar
ryng place of foot This watefpower will lost and
second Paterson, like the rs will long furnish beayv
carrying business for the canal.
Arriving at the tavern Meads basn after visiting the
wooden aqueduc by which the canal the Popton
river the party stopped for the nights and the forenoon of the
following day spent in examining what called Mlers
plane (from the of the buider) Pompon The pn
ciple of the plane somewhat different from that nj Boo
field, but is not necessary to go into any farther minute
that the principle of the inclined plane
established, and longer be regarded
After dining Montve, and ascending another plane con-
suced still upon different principle, the party embarkedn
boat and proceeded the canal the great plane at
Booneton falls Our boat, filled with passengers, and heavily
laden with stone, entered the without stopping Was
steadily and beautiful raised by power applied the
achnery of the pane to the sunma perpendicular height
Of eighty feet-over plane of eight hundred feet in length
This was the fourth plane which had assembled each
which was constructed upon principles somewhat different
but all of which successful The first plane, however,
at Bloomfield, struck the whole the perfect
model g.
The experiments in the view of athe get emen of tho
party-and there several of SCIENCE as well as
tca knowledge gave the perfect and entire satisfaction
For ourselves, fully believe that while overcome
nconsiderabe elevations locks may be retained STILL
come great heights planes will hereafter be adopted and the
Morris Canal will have the credit of introducing improve.
ment which so have very important bearing the pros
pery Of country and indeed of all countries, where the
governments have sufficient WISDOM and the people sufficient
enterprise, to apply the supplied by Providence for
proving their resources by opening channels of nercommu
nicaton For, planes which be constructed with
much facility, and comparatively small expense will
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planes had not succeeded they would and could have
been thought Of Fulton predicted that canals would
wind round every hill and through every valley He might
have added" and climb every mountain And this will be
true as 10 every hill on the summit of which there sufficient
water And sucency of for planes constructed
cordng that at Bloomfield, will be less than required for
other plan of canal navigation hitherto devised the wit
of man.
We have just advered the disparity of expense between
locks and inclined planes The locks the Erie Canal cost
100 dollars for every foot of The cheapest lock
not be built for less than four hundred dollars per foot An
inclined plane informed, and believe may be built for
hundred and fifty dollars the foot and be managed
with much ease and facility and little expense lock-
At the Bloomfield pane conducts the whole opera
lion of passing two boats, without moving of circle OF
len feet The economy of time by substituting planes for
locks, is much greater in proportion than that of mone
must be recoeced that in minutes, two boats, that 49,
and the other down, passed the Bloomfield
plane of So feet and this when there inadequate sup
ply of water the waterwhee scanty quantity having
been taken from adjacent mill brook The water OF the
canal reach this plane till the great aqueduct IS hn-
3D. With head of -four feet of water which there will be
when the Canal full (nstead of 81 inches which all there
the wheel when the experiments lately made
here doubt that full loaded boats may be passed
this plane in five minutes Now pass boat through