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82 in the superior size of those now used. In short it is evident that the only means to secure to N York the incalculable advantage of the future commerce of the Lakes is to open the whole route along the Seneca Otsego Oneida and Mohawk rivers on a grand scale; if partial improvements only are made, the obstruction left will render them of little avail, as the non-increase of the trade at Rome in the last 12 years has sufficiently shown notwithstanding the immense increase of population and produce during that period in the surrounding country.

           The Commissioners having been appointed expressly to