40 A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE 



This account ought not to be closed without presenting for 

 information^ as well as to gratify curiosity^ part of the 

 report of the building committee^ dated July \A:th 1803. 

 Signed. Richard Peter's^ John Dunlap^ Petei' Browne^ 

 George Fox, Anthony Cuthbert. 



" That it was thought proper to begin the work of this season 

 on the eastern side, by laying the foundation of the abutment, 

 and raising the eastern pier to the height required for the 

 first timbers of the wooden superstructure ; so that the whole 

 of the wood work will be elevated above all floods and sub- 

 stances which might injure it when floating on and carried 

 with violence by high freshes. The highest fresh ever known 

 having risen 12 feet 8 inches above high water mark, we have 

 elevated the masonry 16 feet 8 inches above high tide; to 

 guard against all danger. From five feet above the proposed 

 spring of the arches of a stone bridge, where our cut stone 

 ceases, we directed it to be carried up in range work, with 

 hammered stone, as a facing; and the interior bonded with 

 large, long and heavy stone, except at tlie end of the pier, 

 up stieam, where the cut stone is continued as high as any 

 floating ice will probably assail it. The whole of the work is 

 well filled, laid in common mortar and grouted, so as to com- 

 pose a solid mass, capable of resisting the m.ost severe as- 

 sault from ice, floods or floating timber. The terras mortar 

 and clamping, cease with the cut stone, about five feet above 

 high water mark." 



" When this pier arrived at its present height, the masonry 

 of the eastern abutment was proceeded in ; and so far com- 

 pleted, as to be out of all difficulty. We then directed the 

 workmen to commence the raising the zuestern pier. This 

 had been carried up, last winter, within eighteen 'inches oi 

 lov/ water mark. The dam having stood the winter without 

 much injury, though roughly treated by the ice, was pump- 

 ed out on the 2rth day of May last. On examining the ma- 



