Brunswick advocate. (Brunswick, Ga.) 1837-1839, June 22, 1837, Image 1

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Bruns so it It M'ij hoc at it. DAVIS Sl SHORT, PUBLISHERS. voiimm z. The Briuipieick Advocate, la published every Thursday Morning, in the city of Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia, at per annum, in advance, or $4 at the end of the year. No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinued until nil arrearages are paid except at the option of the publishers. [fj 1 Air-letters and communications to the Editor or Publishers in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to ensure attention. ■a ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Doi.lar per one hundred words, for the first insertidh, and Fifty Cents forev •erjP»ubsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. Those sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out... and charged accordingly. Lf.gal Advertisements published at the usual rates. -=» ID»N. 15 Sales of Land, by'Administrators, Executors or Guardians, aje required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-hggje in the county in which the property is situate.— Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette, Sixty Days previous to the day of •ale. . Sales of Nf.groes must be at public auction,- on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public salts in the county where the letters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house, where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property, must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of-Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any order absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. POETRY. [From the Boston Eglantine.] I ; AM NOT LOVED. BY MARY COMSTOCK. I am not loved—l am not loved, The maddening thought is death to me ; That heart of thine hath widely roved. From her who would have died for thee. , ' * But go, my gifted, wayward one— Go range the fields of pleasure wide— Go bask in passion’s burning sun— Forget thy lone, thy unloved bride. Go speak in tones as low and sweet Aathose which won thy orphan's love— Go throw thyself at beauty’s feet, And swear thy heart can never rove ; And thou wait wun full many a smile, And angel beings bright and fair Will banish from thy heart awhile The image which once rested there. P But O, when thou art left alone —^ When pleasure palls and friends have fled Then to this bosom, still thy own, Turn, turn and rest thy aching head. An honest old Dutchman came on a vis it to this village, and was quietly smoking 1 his pipe, in full view of the Mohawk Val- i ley, without knowing that a rail road ran through it. The night was dark, with the appearance of rain', which absolved the old man’s conjectures, when suddenly jg train of cars rumbled by, leaving a long train of sparks in the rear. Suddenly drop ping his pipe the astonished citizen ex claimed, “Veil if York State ish not dp ty fel for improvements! Dey hang lanterns to dere tunder douds dat the peoples may seedem and got out of de vay”—[Canajo harie Radii. The identical ship in which Capt. • Cook circumnavigated the Globe is now lying at New York.—She was originally called the Endeavour ; but after passing through many scenes and changes, now goes by the name of the Rubens, and be longs to Antwerp, whence she has arrived at New York with a cargo of rye.—[Nat. Intelligencer. A Juryman must not be deaf. —At the Monmouth Assizes on Tuesday, a juryman asked to be excused from ser vice. Mr Baron Bolland: “On what ground, sir?”* Juryman: “I am deaf, my Lord.” Mr Baron Bolland : “Can you hear what I say?” Juryman: “Yes, my Lord, but I can only hear on one side.”— Mr Baron Bolland : “Then you may go, sir. A juryman ought to have two ears ; it is his duty to hear on both sides.” Rossini. —lt is said that this great com ' poser has had the temerity to make ovrr turrsio one ofthe daughters of Louis Phil lippe, and has got into disgrace. Maxim. Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding; that civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. BRmwiCK. REPORT. Charlestown, Mass., June 6, 1836. Sir :—Having been .requested by the Brunswick Canal and Rail-road Company to examine and survey a route for a canal from the Altamaha River to Brunswick Harbor, in Georgia, which was incorpor ated by an act of the Legislature, passed December 20,'1834 r I have executed that trust, and present the following Report r w’ith a Plan, showing the route I recom mend for their adoption. \ . The Altamaha river is navigable from Darien 200 miles, to the forks of the Oc mulgee and Oconee, and up the Ocnml gee, the west branch, 300 miles, taMacon, and on the east branch, Ocorffee, 200 miles to Milledgeville, the capital of the State. Steamboats are used with wheels at the sides, and take, on each side, a boat load ed with five or six hundred bales of cotton down .o Darien from Macon and Milledge ville and the intermediate points of the river. The ascending freight by the same means is considered more than that de scending. The amount of cotton-is in creasing, and during the past year there were about 130,000 hales brought to Da rien. From Darien, the Altamuha is also nav igable 12 miles to Doby Island for ships and schooners drawing 11 feet, at common high watca in ordinary tides. At Doby Island, ships may come drawing 14 feet at common high water. Over the bar at Doby Inlet is Iti or 17 feet at high water, but an intermediate bar or spit of sand prevents vessels drawing more than 14 feet at high water, passing to the island. The country bordering on the Altama ha, Ocmulgee, and Oconee, and their tributaries, for an extent at least of 80 miles wide, and 150 miles in length, in the direction of the rivers, abounds with pine, cypress and white oak, which is now almost useless for want of a good harbor at Darien. The tributaries, the great Ohcopee, and the little Ocmulgee, have some saw mills, from which sawed lumber various kinds, and logs, are rafted to Daricrt *» ... c..» , y little for foreign markets. The Little Sa tilla, theGrcat Satilla, the St. Mary’s, and the St. John’s rivers, are accessible from the harbor of Brunswick, by the inland navigation. The St. John’s is the outlet of a large portion of East and Middle Florida,°and the St. Mary’s is navigable to Coleraine for steamboats drawing 10 feet of water. The Great Satilla is navi gable to the head of tide, above one hun ered miles from St. Andrews’ sound, for vessels drawing 10 or 12 feet, at all sea sons of the year. This is one of the best streahas in the State for the lumber trade, having an almost inexhaustible quantity ol pine timber in the country through which it flows. The Little Satilla is an arm of the sea, and navigable to its head, a dis tance of about 35 miles from St. Andrews’ sound. These rivers will send to Bruns wick market, cotton, rice, and lumber in great quantities. From Darien to Charleston and Savan nah, cotton, &.C., is sent by steamboats, schooners and sloops inland, and return goods for the interior, to Darien, by the same conveyance. This inland navigation is afforded by the passages between the islands and the main land, though sloops and schooners occasionally pass outside tilt islands, hut the common route for all navigation is inland. The river Chattahoochee is navigable for sfeamboats to Columbus in Georgia, from Appalacliicola Bay, hut not for ves sels over 11 feet, at the mouth. This river passes through Florida and in that province called Appalacliicola, and is the boundary between Alabama and Georgia, for the distance of 31) miles above Colum bus and for 120 down to the hounds of Florida. A steamboat navigation is also afforded on its principal tributary, the Flint river, to Pinderton, in Georgia, at the end of Spaulding’s Rail-road commu nication with the big bend of the Ocmufc gee. The town of Appalachicola has been found unhealthy, and a Rail-road has been opened frofti Wimico Lake to St. Joseph’s Bay, where there is 20 feet of water, and much more healthy. Altamaha river is the medium of com munication for an imr.ie.ise tract of the interior of Georgia with Darien, which is situated on the left bank about 12 or 13 miles from the sea, but, unfortunately, has no harbor for foreign shipping. All the produce of the country has now to be sent to Savannah or Charleston, and re turn goods received from the same places h f steamboats and small coasting vessels. No foreign trade, from this circumstance, can be carried on. It is a great State, with abundant and increasing productions, without a good port. It is to connect the immense traffic of the Altamaha with a convenient and capacious harbor for the most extensive foreign shipping, that the Brunswick Canal in Georgia has been con templated. - BRUNSWICK, THURSDAY MOXUV2HCI, |UNE 22,1837. Brunswick Harbor, — Georgia. St. Simons Light is on St. Simons IbK and, at the south end, behind which, it * little distance, the island is One or oiMr and c half mile wide. From the east side*, a wide shctal -or sand-bar extends about fire miles in an east south-east directiobw gradually diminishing in width to a pointa forming what is called the north breakenfl A simiiiar bar extends from Jekyl Island;" opposite to St. Simons, wide at the Island," but gradually lessening in width as far the north breaker, and terminating at a point called the south breaker. Between the&e ttvo shoals and the two islands is the chan nel, and between breakers is the bar about a mile long rad half# mile across it. On Saturday, the 13th of February, I went with Edmund M. Blunt, an experi enoed pilot, Capt John Anderson, of Brunswick, a good navigator, &d?,*in Capt. Morgan’s sloop,.to examine the bar, and found at loyrtyatey three fathoms ov er the bar. All'cm board agreed that there was that depth at low water, and that tiie tide was six feet at ordinary tides, so that at common high water theije was 24 feet over the bar/ ' * k If ships, coming in when six or sev§n miles from the light house, make the'light hear W. N. W. they can enter. Imme diately on passing I "the bas, the channel gradually widens and deepens to the light, so that tlite largest vessels and frigates may pass into St. Simons sound above the light* and on taking a southerly direction they may pass up Turtle river, into the outer harbor (ff Brunswick, or continue up Tur tle river ten or fifteen miles where'it is a mile or a mile and a half wide, having from 4 to C or 8 fathoms at low water. — This extensive sheet of salt water is rather an arm of the sea than a river, the tide flows up to the moutlf of a small river;" which soon diminishes to a creek, has no navigation and furnishes no produce. It is therefore an extensive* harbor where there is ample room for the whole navy, with very eligible situations for a naval es tablishment* but has no river opening into the interior, and hence no ships are ever seen iir these waters. Brunswick is situated on the east bank SfeWKff n[o ! ttlfflh'river by a°m arsh i.Tfnd about a mile long and a mile wide. This branch is about a quarter or half a mile wide, with a depth of water sufficient for the largest merchant vessels at all times, except a shallow place or bar between the lower end ofthe island, and Dennis’ Folly, at the lower end ofthe town. This bar is ono mile long and forms the separation between the inner and outer harbor. The town was laid out with streets at right an gles, by directionxjfthe British parliament, about a century ago. Captain Stockton rad Mr. Sherburne were appointed by the Navy Department in 18213, to survey and examine the bar at St. Simons and the harbor of Brunswick. Their soundings over the bar and up the river for a distance of 10 or 12 miles are accurate and numerous, giving over the bar from 16 to 18 feet depth at low water. The report and plans are in the office of the Navy Department. His report and ex tensive soundings are very conclusive as to'the depth of water above St. Simons bar and in the arm of Turtle river, (on which the town of Brunswick is situated,) and on the bar. But the most definite in formation, and I believe,-from personal experience, perfectly correct, is contained in the Report of Messrs. Polhill, Lawson and Fort, made on the 17th of July, 1833, to the Senate and House of Representa tives ofGeorgia, pursuant to their appoint ment; by a resolve of the Legislature, Dec. 17, 1832, “to go and' cxainiue the commercial advantages of the port of Brunswick, and the rail-road avenue to the Altamaha, and report thereon, upon oath, whether or not it would be advisa ble for the State to render any aid in opening Brunswick to the interior.” The valuableVeport of the Commission ers is carefully made and most satisfacto ry on all points relative to the object of their mission, and especially in regard to the harbor of Brunswick. The following extract shows their opinion upon this point. “When you approach within half a mile of -the town, there is a small salt marsh island which divides the river into the northern and eastern branches, the main channel running southward of this island. Between Brandy-point on this island, and Dennis’ Folly, on the Bruns wick shore, there is an inner bar, upon which there is abodt 12 feet at low water, and as the tide rfses ten feet, it gives the same depth of water that we find on the outer bar, with this advantage, that the bottom being soft mud creates no damage ' to ships, and may be very easily deepened !if it were necessary. But no necessity exists, as any ship that crosses the outer | bar can run over this at high water* and , find the best anchorage near the bluff’along :the whole extent of the town, injprom 211 to 40 feet water at the lowest time of tide. | This we ascertained from careful sound j ings at low water, and after having Inish jed the soundings for ourselves,’ ascertain “HEAR ME FOR MT* . •* > ■ . 'SJ ed (bat diagram cbn is healthy, surrounded as it is on tafi JOftlKaad east by the ocean.- ItissKAgPlai a pldn*generally eigl it or tgafeet *(|iyte and very oon venient forisharveiPc On south part Bjfc^tafrnt in an » \- saftQi arsb, ext end' to St. St. S4»fftis light is eight milee44rdj|f (own, and tb® j>ar thirteen miles. and within the .distance of hatfttJSnle, are several sit)all i holes or poryJs, w!u<?h contain shallow wa ter, which maydya drained at very sm.all expense. There is no ofher stream or resting place for fresh w r ater within, many milbs.- These swamps, as thdy are called, are lofw places in the sandy plains, where water in rains collect, and in time have ■given rise 4o the growth of trees, shrubs and plants of an aquatic kind, thick and matted together, so that it is difficult to pass between them ; but the water is often dripd up in summer, and as they are not boggy, the foundation*, is sand, clay or hard earth, so that they m c passable in any direction %hcn the water is dried up and'the bushes are cleared. Upon the healthiness of the place, the State Commissioners are also decided.— “In regard to health, wrt‘consider Bruns wick superior to any sea-port on the south ern coast. It is ahitrh rad dyy bluff, with the total absence of lagoons, swamps of stagnant water, and rice fields, and with a broad sheet of clear ocean water, almost as salt as the sea, and its pure sea breeze setting in regularly from the ocean, make it not only a delfghtful situation in sum mer, as we experienced it to be, but give the strongest assuranoe of the health and comfort of seamen dhd navigators, and of the inhabitants ofothe *fown. We found the wells of water as good as could be ex pected in so low a latitude. Though not very cool, we believe it to be pure, and that which we found in town was better thankhe wells in the immediate vicinity. The extensive are overflowed at every tide, with pure salt water, and are not considered at all injurious to health.— Ihe J^ve'lcSmftf* 1 !* deliffhtfullv over J , )l£s2f.j**aihilics in the vicinity living im mediately upon their edge.” From my examination and experience in February, 1836, f fully believe in the truth of the Commissioners’ Report, and from the absehce of all natural causes of uuhealthiness,'rad the cheap and easy re moval, by draining, of the collection df fresh water \yithin several miles of the town, Brunswick may become one of the most healthy and pleasant residences, in summer and winter, within the southern sea board of our country. If once the buildings become convenient, I believe it will become a resort for people from the northern Stata-q in winter especially, for health or for pleasure. The above account of the great extent and width of the Turtle river, alter pass jug St. Simons sound, affords a complete landlocked anchorage ground for the larg est merchant ships and any class of ships df war, as well as eligible and healthy sites for naval establishments. There appears to me no doubt, that Brunswick harbor will attract the attention of the navy, il the passage ofthe bat* does not forbid. Upon this point the Georgia Commissioners hold the folloTvihg language in their report: “The object «£ Congress in orderjng the survey having been the establishment of a nayal depot tm-Turtle river, it is to be presumed that the officer made his re port with a view to the strict safety of our ships of war, and. therefore preferred be ing rather under than over the depth of 'water. We draw this conclusion from the fact, that we found the soundings on the bar to he generally about eighteen feet, at as near low Water as we could judge; our shallowest sounding sev enteen feet, hut we found more, water on the same tack. As w® found Stockton’s report, vefy accurate In every respect, and as he had spent some time in the survey, we conclude that the water outlie bar may he set down at from sixteen to seventeen feet at low water, and twenty two or twenty-three at high water, strik ing a medium between his survey and our . sounding*. Thejhlots and coasting cap tains on board this vessel we employed in this seemed to be of opinion that there was still, deeper water, as they‘Stat ed that they would risk their nautical skill and reputation in undertaking to bring the largest class of merchant ships, trading to the south, across this bar, at any time of tide. An experienced pilot, whose ser vices we had engaged, assured us that he had been intimately acquainted with this bar for about 23 years, and its breadth and depth had not varied the least in that time. We judge the extent of the bar across it to be about a quarter of a mile, and from half to three quarters in width, between the north and south breakers, to be navigable for large vessels. One ofthe great excellencies of the bar is, that ships can pass.over it in a direct line with a fa vorable wind, and if the wind should be ahead, alje has plenty of room for beat- ing up. Mr. King, the intelligent and en lightened Senator oTGlynn (county,) who immediately on St. Simons Bound, assured us that it was by no means a rare occurence for coasting vessels of heavy burden,, entirely unacquainted with the bar, and without a pilot, to put into the sound fri stress of weather for safety, and that this is done at night as well as in day. This we consider as the most conclusive evidence of the superior excellence and perfect safety of. this bar, and the protec tion afforded to ships that run into the k sound in bad weather. Os the entire safety and of thiq bar,' for the navigation of ships drawing from # twenty to twenty-one feet of water, we can there fore speak in terms of the highest appro bation/’ * For the purpose of connecting the im mense and growing trade of the Altamaha river, which opens an interior navigation within the State of five hundred miles on the as far as Macon, and four hundred miles to Milledgeville on the Oconee, with the capacious and beautiful harbor of Brunswick on the Turtle river, the Legislature of Georgia has incorporat ed a company, with very liberal privileges.' The State has also been so well convinc ed of the utility of the plan to unite the Altamaha, which has no good harbor, with the harbor of Brunswick, which has no navigable river, that it has authorized $59,000 of the stock to be taken in its behalf. The act of incorporation of De cember 20, 1834, authorizes the compa ny to make a oanal or*rail-roa'd, or both, between the water of the Altamaha and Turtle river, and secures them in the per petual enjoyment of their privileges, and against the erection of a rail-road <or ca nal within twenty miles of either. It gives the company also a right to establish any toll it may think expedient, provided that the amount received shall pot exceed, for any successive twelve months, twenty-five per’Cent., net profit % upon the amount ex pended in establishing the canal and rail road, and keeping them in good repair.«»- The capital stock provided by the act is $200,000, which may. be increased one-' tJiiril i_u. a .r.'VWn the subscription to the stock, $5 a share shall be paid down at the time of subscrib ing* and in its own subscription the $5 per share shall not be paid until the com pany have paid their portion of the first instalment. This first payment sooth By the individual subscribers and on the part Os the State, have been already made, and SIO,OOO are now ready, in the hands of the Treasurer, to meet the expense of pur veys and other preliminary measures for commencing the work. Instead of a canal with locks at both ends, it has been suggested that a thor ough cut would accomplish the object without locks. But this would be injuri ous to the country, ruinous to every kind of navigation, and probably lead to a total stoppage ofthe canal. It would also car ry into Brunswick harbor, a vast deal of sand and mud, during freshets, from the Altamaha, and finally fill the harbor so as to destroy navigation. For which rea sons, I think it would he policy for the State to forbid the execution of such a plan, from the Altamaha, or from any other river discharging info Brunswick harbor, without a lock navigation in com mon form. Form, depth, and dimensions of Canal. Before any calculation pan be made as to the cost, the kiud of navigation and the general uses of the canal must first be determined. The object ol the canal is to open the trade of the Altamaha with the harbor of Brunswick, where uo trade or boat at present is ever seen, and seldom any kind of vessels but the smallest coast ing craft. The boats in use on the river are 21 feet wide, and 80 or 99 long, and some, I aintold, are 115 in lengtfr. These boats carry down the river toJJarien from various parts of the Altamaha and its branches, from 500 to 700 bales of cotton in bags of about 300 pounds each. Two kinds of steamboats arc also employed ; one 35 feet wide between the outside of the wheels which are used for towing two boats loaded with cotton, one on *each side, but seldom take other loading up.or down the river except passengers* «frhey often proceed below Darien with their cotton to ships which load at Doby Island 12 miles below, and sometimes even pro ceed to Savannah. The other kind of steamboats have a wheel in the stern, and are about 20 feet wide. These carry cot ton on board and sometimes take a boat in tow. Cotton is the decending freight principally, but grain, rice, and other pro duce is occasionally added. The ascen ding frieglit is equal or to that which descends, consisting ot iron, West India and European goods, manufactures and other articles, carried up lor distri bution in various directions through an extensive country. There are about, IJ(L --000 bales of cotton brought down the ri% er annually, and fr is increasing. ** V Besides these agricultural products there is a quantity of timber, plank and scantling, brought down the river on rafts J. W. FBQST, EdTOK. •"* . - snncanm a from the interior of Georgia, which will greatly increase when it can be carried by the canid to foreign ships in Brunswick harbor, where it may be immediately ship. P ed - .v I propose, therefore, to make the canaF six feet deep below ordinary high water m Brunswick harbor, and depend upon the tide for a constant supply, and admit none from the Altamaha, which is always fresh. During floods it is very turpid, wiQ have’a tendency to render the immediate country unhealthy, and wjjl, ip process fill the jraal w ith silt. In* winter, the water in_ the swamp will naturally j>e most abundant, it mjy ail be tnrpcdjpto the canal, and even in the dryest season the* canal .may thus effectually become a drain' for a small part, instead pf Gibson’s creek, and the health of this part ofthe country be secured from the sickness and fevers which prevail 'near these fresh water swamps. The level ofthe canal may be raised one or two feet in the spring tides, above common high water,, which will facilitate the navigation. Giving a deotlvof 6 feet, making the bottom 354eet wide, and the slopes 1.5 feet base to I foot rise, leaves the breadth 4 at the surface of the water 53 feet, which is sufficient for the boats now in use oq the river to pass each other. A. boat 80 feet long and 21 feet wide, drawing 2 1-2 feet; displaces 113 tons of salt water at'l 63 lbs. the cubic foot, and With a load of 600 bales of cotton at 300 lbs. each, it will weigh a little over 80 tons, thus JAw,* ing 33 tons for the weight of the boat and other loading. At the depth of 2 1-STfeet, two such boats with perpendicularlfcides will pass each other with a space of 3.5 feet to spare. This kind of boat has not upright sides,but they are rounded inwards, and perhaps draw a little more than 21*2 feet of water, but may pass easily. The tow path to be 12 feet wide, which in common inland navigation is generally made a foot above the water of the canal and sometimes tpofe,. but here I would wish it sufficiently below the surface of the ground to make a clear and smooth path, leaving it three or even five leek kjklvAtrlk ■»— aHA-bih » may be extended on thfe bank of my creek quitc.to the town of Brunswick. Locks. A lock will be necessary at each .end. They should be.23 feet wide and 100 long in the clear, with counter guard gates to prevent the river at one end, and the tide at the other, ever entering the canal, whenever either rises above its level. When 1 was there in February, 1836,there was but a few inches difference between the level of the Altamaha and high water in Brunswick harbor. But sometimes ip freshes the river rises three or four feet above the tide in the harbor, and i| not prevented by guard gates, the water will have admission into the eanal, which it is importartt to prevent. *c Asitnilar lock will be necessary at the spu.tXHbnd. This should have counter guar Abates also, but for reasons a little ctfflWfcnt from those which require them at the Altamaha. They are, thatduring the spring tides, when they flow oVer the marshes, the tide rushing in through the locks will produce such a current as 'to injure the banks and impede very much„ the navigation to the south; but there is uo objection to this water entering the canal as it is salt. When the currentpre vails from the river, the same takes place, and boats going to the north are obstruct ed, besides the fresh water of the rivet will always tend to render that of the can al more brackish. For which reasons I would prevent a current from the river, at all times, especially in the last month* of summer, and any strong current from the Brunswick end. I would recommend a sluice for supply ing the canal, to be constructed at the head of Gibson’s creek, near the road, which will be about 4 miles from the south end, and 8 from the north, and lead the drain of the swamp nearly all thrqugh the Six-mile creek. At Gibson’s creek is a favorable point for forming it,with gates that shall open when the tide rises abote the surface of the canal, and shut when the tides fall below. The current .Jbty be here regulated at will, and it will 4tP» tribute itself in either direction much bet ter than if admitted at the end. The depth of the lock must dqpw4 up on the height ofthe tides. neap tides in Brunswick Apjjl 8 feet During spring bly 3 feet higher, and fells 3 feet le*n& making 14 feet, and adding 1 foot to U» height ancTT to the depth, makes I®‘ M for "the depth of the lock. At the AlM)s*> ha the freshes rise 2 hr 3 feet tide at Brunswick, and the river dry seasons about 6 feet beloflr, adfcich gives a depth of 14 feet for thelock. JTh# depth of the lock at the river wall be fore 14 and at Brunswick ld fcet % is, With great respect, . *°“ TTSuSwu. ZuiSlk* yT Rood CaMf*nf, Omrgm. * “V" - *