\V£STE11N CANAL, IS 



which CRn. as I uudcrstaiiu, he ea^ily cliected by 

 ilie first of December, IS23. Indeed, it is cor.ii- 

 dently said, that willi adequate funds, 100 mile:- 

 of this canal can be annually raade. In the work 

 to be finislied, there are more locks in proportion 

 to the distance, than in the middle section ; — while 

 the latter only has 9 locks, tliere will be 25 in the 

 western, and 56 in the eastern section. From 

 Lake Erie to the Seneca river is a fall of 194 feet, 

 and from Utica to Hudson river, a fall of 4 IS 

 feet. But there is no magic in erecting a lock, 

 either as to time or skill. The great pressure of 

 water demands strength, and the massy weight of 

 the .superstructure requires a solid foundatio;;. 

 The larger the stones the better. In the locks 

 near Salina I saw sand stones which weighed four 

 tons; they were moved by cranes and placed on 

 the v.alls with as much ease as a man would 

 handle a brick; and the lock at Montezuma was 

 constructed last year in six weeks. 



The average expense of the middle section is 

 §11,792 per mile. The cost of the western is es- 

 timated at $10,944; and of the eastern, at 

 §21,096 per mile. ?\ever has so much work been 

 done in so short a time, at so small an expense. 



Twenty miles west of the Genesee river, the 



canal will strike the navigable waters of the To- 



uawaata creek, which discliarges itself into Lake 

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