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CAPTAIN JOHN PAUL SCHOOT.

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The skill with which captain Schott directed a piece of artillery in the presence of Washington, during an attack near New York, attracted the attention of the commander in chief, who recommended him immedi ately to the attention of Col. Knox, in whose regiment a command was given him, by which he rendered important services at White Plains.

General Washington, on the 31st of July, 1777, directed captain Schott to raise a company, allowing him to nominate his own officers.-Subsequently he was honoured with the command of three companies, in addition to that which he had raised.

At the batte of Short Hill, where the Americans were defeated, captain Schott, in covering their defeat, was severely wounded and taken prisoner. He was marchThe accumulated evils which he endured for six months ed to New York, and thrown into the Provost prison. under the immediate direction of Cunningham-a wretch who acquired an infamous notoriety for his exquisite art in inflicting miseries upon prisoners entrusted to his care. A majority and a large bounty were offered captain S. if he would leave the rebels and join the British army. His steady adherence to the cause he had espoused, and consequent indignant refusal of the offer, tended to increase the brutality of his tormentors.

Our obituary column a few days since, contained a notice of the death of Captain JOHN PAUL SCHOTT, of this city, aged 85 years. It is due to the memory of a When captain S. was released, he was reinstated in good man-it is due the cause of virtue, that some pub- his command, which, during his imprisonment, had lic notice be made of the services of those who have been given to colonel Armand, and immediately joined directly ministered to the public good, either in de- Pulaski at the Minisink; whence he marched with genfence of national rights in the tented field, or by a salu-eral Sullivan, on the western expedition, and comtary example in the quiet walks of private life. It is manded the right column of general Hand's brigade. ill with a people "when the righteous die, and no man Captain Schott was placed in command of the fort at layeth it to heart." Wyoming, and having, in 1787, married in that vicinity, he determined to make it his place of residence. In 1787 he was elected a member of the state legislature, and evinced a desire and capacity to secure to the citizens the extent of those civil advantages to which his military services had so essentially contributed.

Capt. Schott was a native of Prussia, in which kingdom he was born in 1744. After an academical education, he, at the age of 16, received a commission from Frederick the Great, and served some time in the army of that distinguished gene ral, where he had occasion to see and mingle in, much severe service. The attachment to a soldier's life and strict subordination, which is the soul of all armies, and was especially characteristic of that of Frederic, did not diminish his ardent attachment to rational liberty. Hence he early feit and expressed a strong interest in the cause of our country, struggling as it was to maintain a station' to which her wealth, numbers and localities, gave her claim.

With a view of visiting this country, captain Schott, early in the year 1776, arrived at the island of St. Eustatia, where he obtained information touching the colonies, and found that it would be in his power to aid in a cause that enlisted his best feelings and challenged the sympathies of a considerable portion of Europe. He accordingly chartered a schooner at that island, loaded her with arms on his own account, and sailed for Chesapeake Bay, the entrance to which he found blockaded by the English fleet. By the aid of a British flag, and a British officer's uniform, with which he had had the precaution to supply himself, he passed through the fleet, and after much peril arrived at Hampton; where, having disposed of his cargo to the government, he made known his intention to join the service; and, after a proper introduction, received from congress a captain's commission-now before us signed by the venerable John Hancock.

In 1788 captain Schott raised a company of light horse in Luzerne county, and was commissioned by the vice president of the state as its commander, an office to which he was re-elected in 1795.

In the year 1791 captain S. was appointed a justice of the peace for Wilkesbarre, and discharged the duties of his commission until he left that section of the state to reside in Philadelphia, whither he removed in 1804; and shortly afterwards received a commission in the Custom House, and attended to the labours of his office until a short time before his decease, when, at the age of 84, he voluntarily retired from active life.

Few persons of foreign birth, we believe, entered the "Continental army" with purer motives or stronger attachment to the cause of rational liberty, than Captain Schott; and none identified their own interests more immediately with the sacred cause. The many letters and special directions from Washington, Hamil. ton, and other worthies of the Revolution, which are now found among his papers, show how fully his talents and devotion to the country were appreciated; and the relinquishment of considerable possessions in his native country, together with entire expatriation, is evidence that his zeal was according to his knowledge, and that he knew how to enjoy that which he had la bored to attain.

imposing dignity of age.

Well educated in youth, and early accustomed to the He entered zealously and effectually upon the duties discipline of Frederic's army, and subsequently associwhich he had assumed, and which he knew so well ated with such men as Washington, Knox, and Hamithow to discharge. A higher grade would undoubted- ton, it is not surprising that Captain Schott should posly have been more consistent with captain Schott's mil-sess the manners that constitute the nameless charm and itary knowledge and experience; but a point of etiquette established in the service of Frederic, prevented him from asking for a larger command. The commanding officers of stations were, however, at no loss to discover the capacities of captain Schott, and availed themselves of his knowledge, prudence and fidelity, by directing him to the discharge of duties usually assigned to officers of higher grade-a confidence which it is believed he most amply repaid.

Few men had a heart more susceptible of feeling for the afflictions of others, or a hand more open for deserved charity; yet none knew better how to conceal his beneficence, or applaud similar virtues in others

The piety of captain Schott was deep, fervent, but unobtrusive-regulating his life and conspicuous in his death; not assumed for times and seasons, but mingling

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Sunbury, (Pa.) Aug. 3. men. His youth had been marked by undivided atten. The harvest in this and the adjoining counties, as far tion to those pursuits that were intended to open to him as we can learn, have been unusually abundant. Some usefulness and honor; his manhood distinguished by of the largest crops in Lycoming county, we underdevotedness to the cause of public liberty and social stand, have been cut without the hielp of ardent spirits. happiness; and his age was found in that "way of right. So much for temperance societies. eousness that maketh the hoary head a crown of glory.”

United States Gazette. Shamokin and Mahonoy Coal.-1 lately visited the

coal mines on these streams, and was really astonished, PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.

that in the present coal excitement, and rage for specu. Annexed will be found a table of the arrivals and de- lation in coal lands, these valuable beds should be so partures, to and from this port during the past month. little attended to. The quality of the coal is very supe. We think the table will be useful and interesting; and rior, and it is in my opinion, very easy of excavation. have made arrangements to continue its publication Tlie coal lies near the surface, and instead of mining by hereafter at the end of each month.

Aurora.

propping, &c. as is done at Pottsville, the earth could

here be thrown off, and the coal exposed, at a trifling Inward for July, 1829.

expense. The greatest body of this coal, I am told, is confined to what is called Bear Valley, extending from

the head waters of the Shamokin to ihe forks of Maho. Where from.

noy creek, a distance of about nine miles, and in width from three to five miles. It is also found in considera.

ble quantities higher up these streams to the base of the England,

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Broad Mountain, in a direction towards Pottsville and Cuba,

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Mauch Chunk. Several of these mines have been par. South America,

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tially opened, and the coal hauled in waggons to SunMadeira,

88 bury, to supply the neighboring blacksmiths. It is British Am. Colonies,

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992 preferred by those who have used it, either to the Danish W. Indies,

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Wilkesbarre or Schuylkill Coal-though to me it apHayti,

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pears to partake more of the quality of the Schuylkill Ireland, 1

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than the Wilkesbarre or Mauch Chunk coal. It is light Spanish W. Indies,

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and inflammable, and what is very singular, there apo Holland,

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growths in wood. France,

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This coal might be brought to Market, either by the Brazils,

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Shamokin or Mahonoy to the Susquehanna. The disChina,

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tance by the Shamokin creek would be about sixteen,

and by the Mahonoy about ten miles, and these streams 8 1 15 17

could be canalled, or railways might be constructed, 1 16839

from the mines by the route of the creeks 10 the river. Outward for July 1829.

Baltimore, and the Susquehanna country below the confuence of the two branches, would afford abundant

market for this mineral, and the expense of transporta. Where to.

tion would be much less than that of the Wilkesbarre coal by the North Branch canal.

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Gettysburg, Penn.) Aug. 5. Cuba,

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A greater quantity of rain, it is thought, never fell in South America, 1

937 British Am. Colonies,

this neighborhood, in the same time, than on Thursday 1

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last. It literally fell in torrents for two or three hours.

919 Considerable damage has been done to the fencing Swedish W. Indies,

169 Dutch West Indies,

along the courses of the rivulets, which became very

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much, and very suddenly, swollen. We learn also, 1

235 that a large portion of the stone bridge over Rock Brazils,

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creek, on the Baltimore turnpike, has been destroyed

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On Monday evening we had another storm of rain,
Coastwise, inward vessels 53, tons 5731. accompanied with constant thunder and most vivid
Do. outward do 51, tons 5840. lightning. The waters rose nearly as high as on Thurs-

day. Some building, apparently a few miles north. Experiment in favor of Temperance.

west of the town, was on fire during the storm-doubt. “Yay 26, 1791. 'Tis a fact worthy of notice, that no less from lightning. We had not heard, when our parum or Spirit of any kind was used on board the ship per went to press, where, or whose it was. Brothers, Capt. Josiah, in his late voyage to Canton.

Adams Sent. His men were uncommonly healthy, and not a life was Map of the Slate.-We have lately seen a small map of lost between his leaving the Delaware and his return to this state, published by Mr.A. Finley of this city-having it. The constant drink of his sailors was spruce beer. laid down upon it the various canals & rail roads, wheth. Twenty years ago, it was thought Utopian to think of er commenced or proposed, which we think must prove navigating a vessel without a daily allowance of rum to a desirable companion to the traveller-it is well executhe sailors, as it is now to think of cultivating rice or su- ted and sold at a very reasonable price. gar without slaves."

Printed every SATURDAY MORNING by WILLIAM F Large Cabbage.-On Friday week, a leaf was taken GEDDES, No. 59 Lucust Street. Philadelphia; where, and at from a cabbage stalk, in the garden of Mr. Jacob Rath door back of the Post Office, (back room) subseriptions will be

the PUBLICATION OFFICE, IN FRANKLIN PLACE, secoud fon, in the city of Lancaster, which measured eight feet thankfully received. Price FIVE DOLLARS per annum, payable in circumference. Lancaster county against the state annually by subscribers residing in or near the city, or where for kraut.

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REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE.

EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD.

PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 15, 1829. NO. 85.

EARLY SETTLEMENTS ON DELAWARE.

In a Book of Dutch Records begunn the 19th Aug. 1655. Tuesday the four and twentyeth of August 1655 The petition of Edmond Scarburgh being read to the board desiring that he may depart hence with his sloop and some negroes bought for Virginia after the collection of voices it is ordered

The request is granted provided the petitioner give security to the value of five thousand pounds sterling that he shall neither directly nor indirectly runn into the south bay nor river and that his men do promise upon oath not to do the same nor to give any intelligence to any person on the sea or on Shoar ated as above

After collection of voices is joined for answer when the petitioner shall have proved the particulars and where he left the arms that were at his house when the Fortress Casimer was surrendered further notice will Wee offer by these presents immediately to show be taken of his request done in the Fortress amsterdam | what wee have obtained from their high and mightynesin New Netherland the 18th January 1656

For the continuing of peace and quiet amongst the rated West India Company Director Generall of New subjects of the publick of England and the high and Netherland Curacoa Bonayro Aruba and the dependen. mightynesses the Lord States general We referr our cys of the same and the Honourable gentlemen of the selves to the articles of peace treaties and alliances made councill To all who shall bear see or read these prein the year one thousand six hundred and fifty-four on sents greeting make known That wee have appointed the fifih of April under which resort all governments as qualified and authorised as by these presents wee do well in america as in Europe and whereby they are appoint qualifie and authorize Messrs. Augustine Heer. charged and recommended to commit no hurt liostillity mans and Resolvent Waldron as our faithful envoyes to or injury against one another as by the sixteenth article address themselves unto the honorable Josias Fendall

Wee trust nevertheless that your Honour will be Governour of Maryland and after the delivery of a copy pleased to consider all what relates to this affair not of these presents and of our letter in a friendly and otherwise but as to maintain Equity and Justice neighbourly manner to desire of his honor the Restitui

Wee declare that we are in no manner of ways desi- lion and Re-delivery of the servants as from time to rous to defend injustice but very readily meet with or time and since a year last past are fled out of the settleyield to those that have most Right what surpasses or ment of the high respectfull L.ords governours of the contradicts this and without reason is imposed on us city of Amsterdam and consequently out of this province Wee refer ourselves to the supreme powers or other for Debts and other matters, and as wee are informed wise protest against all injuries as before &c

for the most reside in his honours government the which It has been further advanced that to furnish a more doing to assure his honour on our part that for the Conpeculiar answer to this affair that there be wrote to his servation of good justice and neighbourly duty wee'l honour the generall with all speed for which by the doe the same with those that might desert unto us out Colonell is allowed and granted the space of three of his or other neighbouring governments. weeks or thereabouts at least till wee receive a Return To the contrary in case his honour might take any or answer was signed J Alricks Alexander de Hinoyossa exceptions delay or put of to these neighbourly offers Willem Beckman Jan Willemson Johan Crato Hendrick and necessary affair to inform and make known to his Kip by order of the Honourable the Director and Coun bonour and councell and all those whom it may in any cil as also the Director Beckman and the Gentlemen ways concern that we lege-talionis will be obliged to (scheepenen) aldermen In absence of the Secretary publish and grant Liberty aboade free anes and Reces (was signed)

to all planters servants bought servants negroes included GV SWIERINGEN that now or hereafter shall or will come to us out of his

honours government. An Extract out of the instructions to the Gentlemen Secondly our aforesaid commissioners and Envoyes

Commissioners of the board of the Honourable direct are to lay before the said Governor and his Councill or and council of New Netherland Mr. Cornelius Van what has passed relating the arrival and coming of one Ruyven, secretary of the director and council Captain Colonll Nathaniel Vtie in the said settlement of New Martin Cregier, Ruling Burgomaster of this city of Amstel-endeavouring to subborn and induce the sub: Amsterdam guing to the Sonth River, dated the twen-jects of their high and mightynesses to sedition and ty-third of September, 1659.

Rebellion against their lawful government and their own

nation further without any lawfull act order or qualifiThe Ninth Article.

cation produced of any state prins parliament or govern. If the beforementioned Nathaniel Vtie bee it in per- ment only on a contrived silly paper in the form of an son or by any body else might return for an answer on instructions without time or place where and when his frivolous demand and no less frivolous signed promise wrote nor by order of any state, prins parliament or gov. as is said to have been given him in writing the gentle ernment subscribed to demand and by refusall threatmen commissioners are to give unto him as being a spye ened with blood shedds the aforenamed forteress and and wholly unqualified no answer until he first exhibits settlement of New Amstel adding in case it was not a due qualification of a state parliament or lawfull estab- willingly surrendered within three weeks to take and lish'd government in the mean while to keep him and invade the said forteress with main force and hostillity his second as hostages and treat them civilly untill they all which is directly contrary to the second third six. exhibit better qualifications or that other commissioners teenth and last articul of the confederacy and articles bring a more peculiar and better answer from any state of peace between the republics of England and Netherprince parliament or lawful government to the end wee land and made in the year one thousand six hundred may be duly acquainted where how and on whom wee and fifty-four, and whereas by the said contrived instrucmay take satisfaction for the costs and expenses already tions delivered by the said Colonll Nathaniel Vtie to the been at yet to be at in the maintainance and defence of honourable director and councill of the before mention

ed settlement of New Amstel we cannot deduce nor

hare in view any superior authority or order for such The Tenth Article.

seditions insinuations and seducing of the subjects from The said Vtie returning or not returning they'll fill their leige lords and their own nation much less to the up the commission delivered them in blanck and dis. demanding and threatening of such places the indisput. patch the persons therein named or to be named with able right whereunto can be proved and shown by paall speed to the Governor of Maryland if they can con- tent from the high and mighty Lords States General to veniently bee dispatched from thence and may have a the gentlemen managers of the incorporated West India speedy answer back again if the same cannot according Company and further by bills of sale and conveyances as they find matters bee done better and more speedily of the natives and the possession of more than fourty from hence then to cause Mr Augustine Heermans with years which therefore being an act against the right of all speed to return bither to dispatch his commission Nations and against the above mentioned articles of from hence In the mean while they'l endeavour so peace made and hitherto religiously observed unto much intelligence as in any ways is possible to good whose Judicature and decision all matters of difference friend and at Beren Island for our and their use. if any might happen to come and arise between both

nations must be first and before referred to the last arti& Commission for Augustine Heermans and Resolvent especially authorized and charged in virtue of the often

cle of the peace wherefore our said commissioners are Waldron.

mentioned articles of peace seriously to desire of the Petrus Stuyvesant under their high and mightynesses aforesaid governor and his councill right and justice the Lords states Generall of the United Netherlands and against the aforesaid Colonel Nathaniel Vtie with recom. sbo Hononrable gentlemen managers of the incorpo.' pense for the charges wee have been at and hereafięp

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may be alt on his frivolous demand and bloody threat. And these may be so located that boats can be laden enings for the conservation of our rights to the lands on and unladen, without a carrying place of a foot. This the south river.

water power will not be lost: and a second Paterson, Further by this our open commission desiring that like the first, will, ere long, furnish a heavy carrying our said commissioners as our ffaithfull envoyes Augus. business for the canal. tine Heermans and Resolvent Waldron according to Arriving at the tavern near Mead's hasin, after visit. the right of Nations may be received heard and full ing the wooden aqueduct by which the canal crosses faith given to them promising to ratifye approve and the Pon pton river, the party stopped for the night; and hold for valid what by virtue of this commission shall the furenoon of the following was spent examining what be acted and done as if the same were passed by our is called Miller's Plane, (from the name of the builder) selves Thus done and given under our usual seale und at Pompton. The principle of this plane is somewhat signature at Amsterdam, in New Netherland the twenty differunt from that at Bloomfield, but it is not necessary third day of September, in the year 1659.

to go into any furiher minute descriptions-assuming that the princ ple of the inclined plane is established,

and can no longer be regarded as an experiment. After From the N. Y. Com. Advertiser.

dining at Montville, and ascending another plane, con

structed still upon a different principle, the party emTHE MORRIS CANAL-INCLINED PLANE.

barked in a boat, and proceeded, on the canal, to the . We resume the subject of our visit along the line of great plane at Booneton Falls. Our boat, filled with the Morris Canal. Leaving the plane at Bloomfield, passengers, and heavily laden with stone, entered the we passed on towards the summit level-a part of the car without stopping, and was steadily and beautifully company striking directly across to the Little Falls of raised by water power applied to the machinery of the the Passaic, and a part taking Paterson in the way for plane, to the summit-a perpendicular height of eighty dinner-of which number were we. By pursuing this feet-over a plane of eight hundred feet in length. route, we had ample opportunities to examine the works This was the fourth plane which we had ascended, each of the Canal. The excavation is handsomely done, the of which was constructed upon principles somewhat embankments wearing the appearance of solidity, and different, but all of which were successful. The first the towing path neatly finished. The canal winds its plane, however, at Bloomfield, struck us on the whole way through a fruitful and well cultivated country, pre- as the most perfect model. serving its level for seventeen miles from the plane at The experiments, in the view of all the gentlemen of Bloomfield. When on a former occasion, iwo years since, the party —and there were several of science, as well as we made a visit through this interesting section of coun. of practical knowledge, gave the most perfect and entire try, of which we gave some account, the Contractors satisfaction. For ourselves, we most fully believe, that were just beginning to break the ground on the section while to overcome inconsiderable elevation locks may of the canal where it winds round and partially crosses be retained, still, to overcome great heights, planes will over the ridge of rocks in the neighbourhood of the hereafter be adopted: and the Morris Canal will have great Passaic Falls. In order to preserve the level, a the credit of introducing an improvement which is to deep cut was necessary, for a distance of sixteen rods, have a very important bearing on the prosperity of our through a blue trap rock exceedingly bard, compactly country, and indeed of all countries, where the govern. bedded in chrystals of a pyramidal formation. The ne- ments have sufficient wisdom, and ihe people sufficient cessity of this excavation, the hardness of the rock, and enterprise, to apply the means supplied by Providence the high embankment required along the hill side east for improving their resources by opening channels of of it, all presented a discouraging spectacle. But the intercommunication. For, if planes, which can be conobstacles have been surmounted, and the deep cutting structed with so much facility, and comparatively at so completed to the required average depth of sixteen small an expense, will answer the same purpose, canals feet. And from the banks of the canal, the line of which will now be made, where, if planes had not succeeded, is about half way up the side of the mouniain that they would not, and could not, have been thought of. bounds the valley of Paterson, a prospect meets the eye Fulton predicted that canals would one day wind round of a most interesting character. At the left, as you face cvery bill and run through every valley. He might have eastward, the river, after running for some distance over added—and climb every mountain.' And this will be á rocky den, leaps abruptly into a dark precipitous true as to every hill on the summit of which there is gulf, whence it runs off at its leisure, skirting the vil. sufficient water. And a sufficiency of water for planes Tage of Paterson. At his feet the spectator looks over constricted according to that at Bloomfield, will be less the bustling and thriving village, with its numerous and than is required of any other plan of canal navigation extensive factories, full of life and industry, while fur- hitherto devised by the wit of man. ther in the distance he looks abroad upon the rich val. We have just adverted to the disparity of expense lies of the Passaic and the Hackensack. Paterson itself between locks and inclined planes. The locks on the seems to have been considerably extended and improved Erie Canal cost 1100 dollars for every foot of ascent. since our last visit in 1827. Several new factories have The cheapest lock cannot be built for less than 400 been erected, and the whole air of the place looked like dollars per foot. An inclined plane, we are informed, health, business, and thrift.

and believe, may be built for 150 dollars the foot, and Following the line of canal, the next formidable work can be managed with as much ease and facility, and at is the aqueduct at the Little Falls of the Passaic. This as little expense, as a lock. At the Bloomfield plane, great work, of which not a stone was laid, nor the pre-cne man conducts the whole operation of passing two parations completed for laying the foundations at the boats, without moving out of a circle of ten feet. The period of our former visit, is nearly completed. It will economy of substituting planes for locks, is much greatbe finished in a fortnight, and is the greatest work of the er in proportion than that of money. It must be recol. kind in this quarter of the world-that is, in either North lec'ed that in seven minutes, two boats, that is, one up or South America. By means of this aqueduct, the and the other down, were passed over the Bloomfield canal will be carried over a rocky gulf, by a single arch plane of 52 feet, and this when there was an inadequate of hewn stone, of eighty feet span, and forty-five feet supply of water on the water-wheel; a scanty quantity radius. The height of the superstructure from the base, baving been taken from an adjacent mill brook. The is fifty feet six inches. The length of the aqueduct water of the canal cannot reach this plane till the great is one hundred and thirty-five feet. It is a noble struc- aqueduct is finished. With a head of four feet of water, ture, and the situation is strikingly interesting and pic. which there will be when the canal is full, (instead of turesque. From the Falls, a few rods above, water pow. 21 inches, which is all there was over the wheel when er for mills and manufactories, is at hand, to any amount. the experiments were lately made,) there is no doubt