American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

Albany, May 15.

The site for a lock, at the termination of the Erie and Champlain canals, and which lock is to connect the waters of the great lakes with the tide waters of the Hudson, at this city, has, within a few days past, been located by Mr. Seymour, the acting commissioner on the eastern section of the Erie canal, and Mr. Wright, principal engineer. This lock is to be built near the state dock, on the bank of the Hudson, in the rear of the mansion house of Col. Stephen Van Rensselaer, Jun. The pier or mole, now constructing in the harbor of this city, and which has been staked out in its whole extent, commences a short distance above the lock. The average depth of water is ten feet, and the sand or alluvion has also an average depth of ten feet; and when the pier is finished and the sand excavated from the basin, our harbor will possess a depth of water of 20 feet; and by removing the sand bars in the river for the distance of about ten miles, we shall have a free and uninterrupted navigation for the largest merchant ships from the ocean up to the wharves of our city.

Albany Gaz.