The planes average about sixty feet of perpendicular lift each, and are to support about forty tons.
The time consumed in passing them is twelve minutes for one hundred feet of perpendicular rise.

The expense is less than a third of what locks would be for surmounting the same rise.

If we set about any more canals, this may be worth attending to.
This Morris canal is certainly an extraordinary work; it not only varies its level sixteen hundred feet, but at one point runs along the side of a mountain at thirty feet above the tops of the highest buildings in the town of Paterson, below; at another it crosses the falls of the Passaic in a stone aqueduct sixty feet above the water in the river.

This noble work, in a great degree, owes its existence to the patriotic and scientific energy of Mr.Cadwallader Colden.
There is no point in the national character of the Americans which commands so much respect as the boldness and energy with which public works are undertaken and carried through.

Nothing stops them if a profitable result can be fairly hoped for.