The height from the foundations in the river, to the top of the work is 150 feet ; the width across the top is 21 feet. The pipes when laid upon the bridge will be covered with earth to protect them from frost. The distance between the extremes of the pipes when laid across the bridge will be 1377-g- feet. For a distance of 18 feet at each end of the pipes there is an inclination and the remainder of the distance across, which is

1341i feet, they are level. The bottom of the interior of the pipes on the level part, is 12-ro feet below the bottom of water way of the Aqueduct

on the north side, and 10 TV below that on the south side of

the valley. In the progress of excavating in one of the coffer dams in the channel of the river a portion of a sunken vessel was found within the enclosure ; it had the appearance of great age. Tradition among the inhabitants of the vicinity says that at an early period of the Revolutionary war a vessel was scuttled and sunk in that part of the river. To a mind fond of antiquarian researches and accustomed

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to invest objects of such a nature with associations of the past, this ancient wreck would furnish a fruitful theme. We are now laying the foundation of a magnificent work : at

the day when was sunk the American people this vessel