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president and directors. This proceeded from the 

 very great importance to himself and to the Com- 

 pany, that he should he aided by tried and skilful 

 assistants, upon whom he could implicitly depend 

 in the location of the canal. 



Charles Ellet, Daniel Livermore, and Simon YV. 

 Wright, were elected assistant engineers, each 

 with a salary of $2,000 per annum. It is under- 

 stood that these engineers are of many years' ex- 

 perience in the line of location, and that these are 

 the rates of compensation which some, if not all 

 of them, are now receiving elsewhere, and the 

 least lur which their services could be procured. 



The surveyors, rodmen, and chain-carriers, 

 will be appointed by the president, in conjunction 

 with the assistant engineers. It is understood that 

 those appointments will be speedily and advanta- 

 geously filled, horn a list of numerous applicants 

 from within the limits of the state, who are well 

 educated and seek to enter the profession of en- 

 gineering with a view to future distinction, as well 

 as the means of subsistence. 



It is hoped that the whole corps will be organ- 

 ized and equipped for the field by the 15th July, 

 and that the three divisions will be in motion by 

 the 20th of the month. 



For the Farmers' Register. 



PLAN OF A LABYRINTH, FOR A PLEASURE 

 GARDEN. 



The plan below, will probably be found to accord 

 with the object in view more completely than would 

 be supposed possible from employing so few lines, and 

 in so small a space as this might be constructed on. 

 The difficulty here designed, (like that of the laby- 

 rinth within which tradition tells that Fair Rosamond 

 was concealed,) is to find the way in — and not out, as 



was the difficulty in the Cretan labyrinth. Indeed, 

 one part of the purpose and effect of this is to bring 

 the seeker frequently outside of the entrance, when he 

 supposes he is making fast progress towards the cen- 

 tre. If on this plan a labyrinth was constructed by 

 walls or paling, with passages of sufficient width, it 

 would not cover a quarter of an acre: and if construct- 

 ed in a public pleasure garden, of a city, would serve 

 to furnish as much amusement to visiters, and profit to 

 the proprietor, as could be obtained at no greater cost. 



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