Erie Canal...
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September 07, 1822
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Sept. 7, 1822.
* Erie Canal
A page 2 report states that "...the Great Dam across the Hudson, at Fort Edward, is completed, and filled.--It is 30 feet high, and 900 feet long...It has been constructed to supply the Northern Canal with water. A second report states that Stephen Van Rensselaer...engaged Professor A. Eaton, of Troy, to take a Geological and Agricultural Survey of the Great Canal...from Albany to Buffalo, a distance of 360 miles..." and more about the survey. Some lite foxing.
* Erie Canal
A page 2 report states that "...the Great Dam across the Hudson, at Fort Edward, is completed, and filled.--It is 30 feet high, and 900 feet long...It has been constructed to supply the Northern Canal with water. A second report states that Stephen Van Rensselaer...engaged Professor A. Eaton, of Troy, to take a Geological and Agricultural Survey of the Great Canal...from Albany to Buffalo, a distance of 360 miles..." and more about the survey. Some lite foxing.
Category: Pre-Civil War
