Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 3

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

The public are anxiously looking for the completion of this great undertaking, and as we have had an opportunity of conversing with one of the principal contractors, we are induced to make a few remarks on its present situation, the correctness of which may be entirely relied on. The water has been let into the canal from the Delaware, to some distance beyond the summit ridge, and presents a complete line of navigation nearly eight miles in length: through the low grounds it is very broad, and through the Deep Cut the regularity of the large stone walls on each side, give it an appearance of neatness, solidity, and magnitude, scarcely equalled in any similar work. On the Western side it is finished for four miles, from the Chesapeake, and the water will be admitted this week into that portion of the line. This will leave unfinished about a quarter of a mile, where the excavation does not exceed an average depth of four feet. On this small extent a large force is actively employed; and it is the decided opinion of our informant that, in a very few weeks, the navigation will be complete and open for the public A visit to the canal at this time could not fail to be extremely interesting.— Nat. Gazette