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soil abounds in roots of decayed vegetables, there can be no 

 doubt of the fertilizing effects that will be produced by the 

 employment of its ashes. He has already tried the ashes of 

 those pests of a moist soil, tussocks, on grass land, and from 

 the present appearances exhibited by the spots dressed with 

 them, he expects the most beneficial effects from their use on 

 the succeeding crop. Tussocks yield a great proportion of 

 their weight in ashes, and burn readily, after being set up in 

 small heaps, oven-fashion, for a few days, in the sun. 



(F. p- is.) 



A. Company is incorporated in the State of New York, " for 

 the purpose of effecting boat navigation between Seneca Lake 

 and the Susquehannah River," and have laid a memorial be- 

 fore the government of Pennsylvania, soliciting its aid and pa- 

 tronage. The completion of this work, with that now in con- 

 siderable progress between Seneca and Ontario Lakes, will 

 open a Boat Navigation from the Lakes to the Chesapeak. 



The recent completion of the Locks on Black River, below 

 Brownsville, effects the navigation of the River from Lake On- 

 tario to Brownsville. 



The want of the Chesapeak canal was severely felt during 

 the late contest. The property, public and private, taken by 

 the British blockading squadron, and the cost of transporting 

 articles by land that could have been sent by that canal, if it 

 had been finished, amounted in value to much more than what 

 is wanted to complete it, or than the whole canal will cost. — 

 Happy would it have been for the United States, had the elo- 

 quent speech in favour of tliis Canal, of the lamented J. A. 

 Bayard, delivered in the Senate of the United States, in 1808, 

 been attended to by Congress. 



These are minor objects, compared with the stupendous 

 project of connecting the River Hudson with Lake Erie, 

 which originated in New York four years since, and which 

 it is to be hoped will he aided by the General Government — 



