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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.
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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*
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