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83 enquire into the practicability of making a perfect navigation from the Hudson to the Lakes in the reason I have been particular on the subject.

    We left Rome about 3 oClock in the afternoon, and embarked on the Canal + The elevation of  the height of land between the Mohawk & Wood creek is so small that the two locks at the extremities where it joins the river + creek, have only 8 feet lift of water above their respective levels - the canal is about two miles in length; after passing through it, we decended