160 CANAL. 



Either that the toll would be too high, or th&i 

 the tonnage is over estimated. 



That this toll would not be oppressive, must 

 be evident from the following considerations : 



1. The expense of transporting a ton of goods 

 from Albany to Buffalo, by land, is $100. 



2. Thetoll lately paid for passing a tonof goods 

 through the locks of the Western Inland Lock Na- 

 vigation Company was five dollars and twenty-five 

 cents, besides a considerable duty upon the vessel; 

 and this only for a distance of 10 miles. 



3. Mr. Fulton estimated the expense of trans- 

 portation on a canal, one cent a ton per mile, ex- 

 clusive of tolls — the expense of conveying a ton 

 from Buffalo to Albany will amount to |8 53, but 

 if we average it at two cents a mile, it would only 

 exceed by three cents twelve dollars, a very 

 inconsiderable expense, when compared with 

 the cost of other modes of transportation. 



That upwards of 400,000 tons are annually 

 conveyed on the Hudson river cannot be denied. 

 The region comprehended in this trade, will be 

 jn population and extent to the territory embra- 

 ced in the trade of the western and northern 

 canals, as one is to twenty — but to reduce the 

 ratio to the moderate computation of one to two 

 and an half, and then the million of tons will be 

 made out 



