the United States of America. dH 



England, had extended to America, with a portion of the 

 same mad spirit of speculation. But while various other 

 companies were managed with a reference merely to the 

 elevation of the price of their stock, this canal company was 

 distinguished, in the most honourable manner, by a direct 

 and faithful determination to carry into effect the great 

 objects of their charter. It hence enjoys the highest cha- 

 racter and credit ; and when it became necessary to raise a 

 further capital, to extend the line of communication beyond the 

 point at which the original estimates ceased, the state was in- 

 duced to pledge its good faith for the redemption of a loan of 

 half a million of dollars. Such favour this company justly 

 merited, from the honour and fidelity with which its business 

 was conducted. 



We shall close the present paper by mentioning another pro- 

 ject for a communication with the coal region ; the route of 

 which lies partly in the state of New York. It was intended 

 to pass in a direction nearly parallel to the Delaware and Hud- 

 son canal, from the mouth of the Pequest, a branch of the 

 Delaware in Sussex county of New Jersey, to the Hudson in 

 the vicinityof the village of Newburgh. Although the route has 

 been surveyed, and found practicable by a very intelligent engi- 

 neer, and a charter granted by the states of New York and 

 New Jersey, no step has been taken towards its construction. 

 It would afford, however, as convenient a mode of reaching 

 the coal mines as the Delaware and Hudson canal, and has 

 the advantage of entering the Hudson nearly forty miles nearer 

 to New York. 



In the former part of this essay, we paid what we felt to be 

 a merited tribute of praise to the then governor of the state of 

 New York, De Witt Clinton. Even before that paper reached 

 England, that great public benefactor of the United States 

 had ceased to live. He has left a space in the public 

 councils of his country, that will not soon again be filled by 

 one equally zealous for the improvement of his country, or 

 equally fearless in promoting the facilities of internal commu- 

 nication, at the risk of the loss of political consequence, and 

 popular favour. 



