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Streets. — The Hudson river blue-stone, obtained at the 

 quarries near the city is used for sidewalks and curbing. 

 The roadways are paved and macadamized. The statistics 

 of street work are as follows :^' 



Belgian block pavement 6,275 f^^t. 



Cobble stone pavement 3-525 " 



Telford and Macadam roads 23,800 " 



OR IN miles: 



Block pavement, length 1.9 miles. 



Telford road, length 4. 5 " 



Tram road, length 1.6 " 



Albany 



The amount of stone used in construction in this city is 

 comparatively large, and a great variety is employed, owing 

 to the facilities for getting it from the several stone districts 

 which surround it. The canals and the river afford cheap 

 freights from the north, west and south, and railway lines 

 converge here as a centre, from all points of the compass. 

 As the capital of the State it has among its structures of 

 stone the several state buildings. 



Granites, marbles, sandstones and limestones have all 

 been used in the state, city and county buildings, and in 

 the church edifices. Sandstones are more common in the 

 fronts of mercantile buildings and in those of private dwell- 

 ing-houses. In foundations, and in common wall-work, 

 Schenectady blue-stone is most largely used, and from the 

 quarries at Aqueduct and at Schenectady. Blue limestone 

 also has been put in some of the heavier masonry. For the 

 capitol substructure granite from the Adirondacks, and 

 from Monson, Massachusetts, and a large amount of lime- 

 stone from Willsborough, on Lake Champlain, from Kings- 

 ton and from the limestone quarries of the Mohawk valley 

 was used. Hudson river blue-stone is used extensively and 



* Letter of Hon. James G. Lindsley, of Rondout, February 10, 1890. 



