The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-08-08
From the New YORK Commercial Advertiser, July "a.
THE MORRIS CANAL.

Oflce, In Walstreet, New-York or at the Bank in
Jersey CITY, for erecting the walls for the inclined planes
at Newark Particulars may be obtained by applica-
ton at either of the above places' notice which
appeared on Friday in some of city papers, in the
words which have here quoted has recalled TO our
mind pleasurable duty which we ought to have dis
charged before. Last week we had the honor of be-
ing one of party of gentlemen who paid visit to
the whole line of the Morris Canal and some of whom
extended their tour to the Pennsylvania works to be
connected herewith from Easton, on the Delaware.
along the Lehigh, to the immense coal fields at Monq
Chung.* The party was composed of many of our
most respectable citizens, including several heavy cap
ltasts, together with several scientific gentlemen from
Pennsylvania and elsewhere and the officers and di-
rectors fthe canal company, the engineer canal COM
mIssloners &C. Leaving the city early on the bright
and beautiful morning of the 18th instant after skim
ming briskly the Newark meadows to the delight
full and thriving town whence they derive their name
and traVersing portion of the canal banks between
Newark and Bloomfield, we made our first stop at the
latter place, to examine the inclined plane Just COM
pieted near the village, and which the party were to
see in successful operation. There has been much
skeptlcsm upon the subject of inclined planes and the
fact having become known that the works here were
to be set in motion, many hundred citizens from New
ark and the surrounding neighborhood were collected
on the occasion to witness the experiment, which, as
will be seen in the sequel, equally successful and
satisfactory.
The railways have inclination of one foot in every
twelve-of course they ga feet in length. The
plane is constructed the balance principe-tbat
chain passes round pulley wheel at the head of the
plane, and car, which boat and cargo is TO he
transported, is attached to the end of the chain The
puey-wheel is connected with water-wheel by COM
mon gearing, that the motion may be instantly and
easily reversed by throwing spur-whees in and out of
gear The descending assists the ascending body inst
as the descending bucket in well assists that which is
ascending. And the water-wheel, at the head of the
plane, ito continue the familiar comparison,) supplies
the place OF the man at the crank of the well and
as the man at the crank would have to hold back il
the descending bucket the heaviest so at the pane
the descending boat is the weighty the water
wheel will be used to retard the notion instead of pro
polling it. The trade from the summit level to New
ark, will be chiefly descending trade-that is The de-
scendng freight of COAL iron ore lumber. plaster ag
Ticultural produce, &C. ninety-nine times out of a
hundred, will be the heaviest. And in such cases no
water will be used on the water-whee
In the attempts heretofore made to introduce the in
clned plane on canals the greatest difficulty has been
TO pass the boat from the apex, highest part of the
plane, into the water Of the upper level or vice yer
sa from the water to the plane. Double planes have
been triedthat is the plane from the lower level was
carried up to some height above the water in the M
per level, and from the highest point plane was made
TO descend into the water of the upper level upon which
the boat was to be launched and to descend by gray
fy into the water. When boat was to descend, she
was to be drawn up by machinery to the apex, and