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taken, than to terminate the roads at Burlington. You
reduce the necessity, after apparently exploding
the bridging project Of either going und the Lake,
or across it, at Burlington Not So my amiable friend
As iorciby and ably you present your side Of the
question: still feel perhaps vanly, but rery confident
that if the Lake is fcnied it must be by Cumberland
Head.
/ With still the best wishes for Burlington and the
Free Press, remain, yours,
4 PLAS BLUNT ISLANDER.
Our article was longer than the Islanders
last week. and we now mean to yield him the
same advantage, if it be any. lie now mani
testify. wishes to be understood that the Boston
and Or1ensburgh roads wW communicate with
each other by means of Ferry from Grand Isle
to Cumberland Head, though he thinks the better
route (and one that he still holds to be practical
t ble) is the bridging to Rouse's Point
We still adhere to the opinion that no bridging
Of Lake Champan Curther than that from Mil
ton across the Sand bar, which has already been
pranted1 will ever be permitted And for the
C Obvious reason that it would be rery serious
obstruction to the navigation of the lakc-inorr
serious, perhaps, than our correspondent mag
ines. To be sure. if navigation might all be
n sopped at Rouse 5 Point, as he funny Suggests,
= it would be another matter. Bat this compen-
e dious method Of ending the discussion won'tans-
= wer. IF the navigation of the Hudson (WheTe
draw-bridges are ttiHte'y less Objectionable than
II they would be on our Lake , could be SfoPP'd at
II Albany. only six miles below where Nature her.
Ii self has stopped it, the AIbanians would have got
their Bridge long ago. The temper of the are
III IS. however to realoce rather than to multiply
Y distractions on all natural highways.
y, The capital objection to draw-bridges on the
n waters of our Lake is, that they cannot be pas
er sel crcqpt ,clcn the ,caier is cain and still I'm
is arinc the splendid tast-sailing steamer United
H. States. Capt. DAVIS, hauled up along side the
H. Fort at Rouscs Point. for couple OF days, wait
- ING for the wind to aubside so that she could pass
r.. the Draw and proceed to St. Johns! Oh, my
at dear Islander. this would nerer do! Let Us
ny smile at these Convenient draw-bridges, and let
ar them 90 The only period during which they
'o would be ioleuJic would be when 1.-The old lady
,,l draws shield over her bosom and laughs at the
nd wind-storms,' or, in less poetcal phrase, whe1
ibt the Lake is frozcn Aud so. since our CORES
ON pondent thinks the bridging scheme wW not, anC
~ ne tLniit cauqo be resortcd to, we will vast
Wv. no more words upon It.
IL. The proectthat remains, and that possesses
eat the entire confidence OF our Island rend,hocaus
nod he assumes it to be the one that rW prevail, is
ma toirrry the Lake from Grand Isle 20 Cumberland
,eh Head. And, As between this project and tin
," , one of crrying from Burlington and Port Kent
4, I fort tho former r.
no Let us see.
we'd The navigation of the St. Lawrence from it
10 outlet near Kingston to Ogdensburgh. d'Stanc
,. ot some srlU or serenity miles, is closed by ic
no about as early as the Lake is closed batwee
ote Grand Isle and Cumberland ilead-that IS SON
cen lonr or six weeks cartier than it is between Bn
'ui Hngton and Port Kent. Consequently all Il
~. beef and pork of our correspondent. and Il
flour and wheat &c, the products OF the gre
ne. West. that are intended to reach the Atlant
fits Markets through that avenue, must reach q
as densburqh some weeks before navigation is @
1t, structcd AZ all between Port Kent and Burlin
the ton. lut nat before it is closed between Ora
H Isle and Cumberland Head. When the ireig
, =, TINT is thus accumulated at Ogdensburgh Is on
0lS O-tl OF, ll'It !f'illt4ilS 'lNNN ~ ~
,on- b1tHcon Oglansburgh and Boston until the opc
-h ing OF nayigable waters in the Spring But
ura. Burlington the lake remains open and nayig
''S bic long enough etler the St Lawrence is clos
Ic,v to allow this freight to be easily and cheaf
,o,p transported to Boston. Is this the case Jeice
ubt- Cumberland Heli and Grnnd Lle We thi
'rtu- not, we believe not. we say not Our good-r
pee tured correspondent will tell us.
''ss These, as they strike us. are plain and pral
cal and common sense suggestions touch
sera the alleged superiority Of the claims of Burir
nnu- ton as the point Of departure westward for
lse,I Railroad Ferry. We suppose there are "a f
be- more left that might be used in an emergen
take But nor we see no necessity for them. \
r. think our friend on the Island may allay
srns "icars" of seeing his rich and welconduc
nifty farms 'sfspoied OF their beantyby railroad C
hing, Meeting Ogdensburgh with Boston. With ro
ar 10 from Boston to Burlington, and from Burling
' to Montreal, we perceive no sort Of necessity
I.ss disturbing the happy repose of Grand Isle, tur
for err than to tap her with sde-cut, over 1.-THE Ba
ID no in order to accommodate her respectable and c
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