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&e. For cisterns it will be much used, no doubt, and for 
all the principal erections of stone work ‘for canals, it is in- 
dispensable. 
Respectfully, I am 
Dear Sir, your Obedient Servant, 
7 BENJAMIN WRIGHT. 
W. W. Woo sey, Esq. 
We are informed by Mr. Woolsey that the price of this 
lime, pulverized and burnt and delivered at Utica, is twenty 
cents the bushel. Mr. W. remarks, that “ Mr. Wright is a 
gentleman equally distinguished for respectability of char- 
acter, and high attainments as a =o ee ince that 
‘* his accuracy may be relied o ea, 
Postscript, April, 3, 1821. vase 
In February we had an interview with Mr. White, from 
whom we obtained the corn it result of the analysis of 
the ee — aa Dr. Hadley 
Carbonic acid, - - 35,05. 
Oxid of iron, - Ree 2,02 
98,20 
To this notice we add the followin extract of a@ letter am 
Myron Holley, Esq. one of the the ¢ Tene Be great 
canal, dated oe : 
Mr. White, one of our ‘Engineers on the Erie oe | 
aman of good character and useful attainments, es 
on Scorers connected with fi profession, discovered, in 
the course of the season before last, the material for making 
an excellent water-proof-cement, existing in great a 
pine id esi district of this state. And we have 
made extensive and profitable use of his discovery in the 
locks and other mason-work of the Erie canal. tis proba- 
bly superior to Parker’s ent, in quality, and may 
