The Eastern Division embraces Albany Basin and the Erie Canal, from Albany to Oneida Lake Canal, a distance of..

131.35 miles. The Champlain Canal and Glenn's Falls Feeder.

78 do. Black River Canal and Improvement..

90.60 do. Reservoirs connected therewith.

12.96 do.

do. do.

Total.....

315.90 The Middle Division embraces the Erie Canal from Oneida Lake Canal to the east line of Wayne County.

68.58 miles. The Chenango Canal..

97

do. Oneida Lake Canal

6

do. Oswego Canal

38 Baldwinsville side-cut Oneida River Improvement..

20

do. Seneca River towing-path.

5 do. Cayuga and Seneca Canal

22.77 do. Crooked Lake Canal.

8 do. Chemung Canal and Feeder.

39 do. Navigable feeders.

3.35 do. Cayuga inlet..

2 do.

......118 do.

Total

310.70 The Western Division embraces the Erie Canal from the east line of Wayne County to Buffalo

155 miles. The Genesee Valley Canal, including the Dansville side-cut. Total

273 Making the whole length of the canals and public works of the State 899.60 miles, exclusive of the authorized extension of the Genesee Valley Canal, which will add about seven miles to its length.

STATEMENT OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK ALREADY DONE, AND ESTIMATED COST OF COMPLETING THE WORKS AUTHORIZED BY THE CONSTITUTION.

The amount estimated for work done, engineering, land damages, etc., upon the enlargement and other works authorized by the Constitution, from December 31, 1853, to December 31, 1856, was..

$9,174,909 80 The amount estimated on the same account during the past year was.......

2,862,923 07 The estimated amount of work to be done and payments to be made for engineering, land damages, etc., from and after this date is as follows: Erie Canal Enlargement.

$1,743,964 58 Oswego Canal..

448,027 37 Cayuga and Seneca Canal

161,677 24 Black River Canal

97,135 00 Genesee Valley Canal.

109,212 10 Locks on the Champlain Canal..

129,180 00 Engineering

209,919 00 Land damages..

467,829 62 Add for contingencies.

345,222 22

3,712,167 13

$15,750,000 00 ESTIMATED COST OF FINISHING THE STATE CANALS.

Extract from the State Engineer's Report, dated Albany, Mar. 24, 1858.

The estimated “amount of money necessary to complete the unfinished Canals,” from January 1st, 1858, is as follows:

1st.-ENLARGEMENT OF THE ERIE CANAL. Work remaining to be done on existing contracts.

$1,403,183 28 Work not under contract,

362,391 10 Engineering and land damages.

550,000 00

3d.--ENLARGEMENT OF THE CAYUGA AND SENECA CANAL.

Work remaining to be done on existing con

tracts.. Engineering and land damages.

$161,677 24

60,000 00

$221,677 24 Add 20 per cent. for contingencies. .

44,335 44 Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857... 58,323 76

Total amount necessary to complete the Cayuga and

Seneca Canal..

324,836 44

4th.-BLACK RIVER CANAL.

Work remaining to be done on existing con

tracts.. Engineering and land damages.

$97,135 00
40,000 00

$137,135 00 Add 20 per cent. for contingencies...

27,427 00 Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857.. 19,210 50

Total amount necessary to complete the Black River Canal

183,772 50 5th.-GENESEE VALLEY CANAL. Work remaining to be done on existing con

tracts. Engineering and land damages.

$41.811 00
30,000 00

Add 20 per cent. for contingencies.
Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857...

$71,811 00
14,362 20
9,177 00

$95,350 20

Total amount necessary to complete the Genesee Valley

Canal. 6th.-ENLARGEMENT OF LOCKS ON CHAMPLAIN CANAL. Work remaining to be done on existing contracts..

$24,480 00 Work not under contract.

104,700 00 Engineering and land damages.

30,000 00

Add 20 per cent. for contingencies..
Add per centage retained to Dec. 31, 1857...

$159,180 00

31,836 00 25,533 00

Total amount necessary to complete the Champlain Canal 216,540 00

Total amount necessary to complete unfinished Canals.. $4,955,777 14 It appears from the above estimates that the amount of money necessary to complete the unfinished canals is four millions, nine hundred and fiftyfive thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven 14-100 dollars.

DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL.

OFFICE, 29 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. This work belongs to an incorporated company, chartered by the States of New York and Pennsylvania, and is too important in its connection with internal trade not to be noticed. The work was commenced in 1825, and finished in 1829, extending from the Hudson River up the valley of the Rondout Creek, in Ulster; then across parts of Orange and Sullivan counties, to the Delaware River; then along its bank, in all 84 miles, when it crosses to the valley of the Lackawaxen Creek, in Pennsylvania, up which it runs 24 miles to Honesdale, where it meets a railroad, running 16.1 miles to the mining village of Carbondale, making the entire route 124. miles. The work was constructed by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company; the entire cost of which was $6,156,000. The capital of this company, as originally incorporated, was $1,500,000, with the right to increase its amount from time to time, as business might require, and with the privilege of employing one third thereof for banking purposes, till 1844, when this privilege expired; present capital $7,500,000.

This company is extensively engaged in miring and bringing to the New York market Lackawanna coal, constantly employing a large number of boats and men.

GEORGE T. OLYPHANT, President.
ROBERT SOUTTER, Vice-President.
ISAAC N. SEYMOUR, Treasurer.
JAMES C. HARTT, Secretary.

TOLLS ON THE STATE CANALS.

TABLE, showing the amount of Tolls, etc., received on the several Canals of this State, in each year, from 1823 to the 31st December, 1857. Also, the Canals in order of completion. Year.

Tolls, etc. Expenses and Repairs. Canals completed. 1823

$190,635 08 1824 340,761 07

Erie and Champlain. 1825

566,279 49 1826 844,508 02

$531,675 73 .Cayuga and Seneca. 1827 881,134 09

494,701 05 1828 831,002 10

393,517 99 .Oswego. 1829 817,919 28

357,587 52 1830 1,045,163 42

292,673 76 1831*. 751.268 62

224,419 83 1832 1,112,917 74

428,964 78 1833 1,388,380 53

487,797 32 1834 1,387,715 02

534,897 82 Ş Chemung and 1835 1,484,595 61 510,524 76

Crooked Lake. 1836 1,598,455 48

467,599 33 1837 1,325,609 77

608,993 60 Chenango. 1838 1,465,275 16

622,027 29 1839 1,655,788 56

504,757 53 1840 1,606,827 28

575,020 58 1841 1,989,686 71

514,517 55 Ş Genesee Valley 1842 1,797,463 80

642,584 30

{ and Oneida Lake. 1843 1,953,829 08

531,145 56 1844 2,388,457 34

636,857 72 1845 2,375,533 43

738,106 32 1846 2,798,849 76

639,353 01 1847 3,463,710 26

643,766 08 1848 3,156,968 38

855,850 64 1849 3,378,920 18

685,803 91 1850 3,393,081 37

835,965 81 . Black River. 1851 3,703,999 34

907,730 20 1852

3,174,857 49. 1,049,045 92 1853

3,162,190 14 1,098,476 92 Baldwinsville. 1854

2,982,114 97 1,237,866 20 1855 2,632,906 11

989,792 12 1856 2,721,740 63

786,633 40 1857 2,531,804 38

CANALS OF CANADA,

SHOWING THEIR LENGTH, LOCKS, ETC.
Length

Lockage
NAMES, ETC.

Locks.

Cost. in miles.

in feet.
WELLAND CANAL.
Main Trunk, Port Colborne to Pt.
Dalhousie...

28
27

330 Dunnville Feeder, junction to

£1,061,497 Dunnville ...

21
1

8 Broad Creek Branch

11
1

8
Sr. LAWRENCE.
The Gallops

2
2

8 Point Iroquois

1

6

£1,052,601 Rapid Plat.

4

2 Farren's Point

1

4 CORNWALL

11}

7

48 (Long Saut Rapids) BEAUHARNOIS

111

9

821 £365,331 (Cascade Cedars, etc.) LA CHINE....

8.3
5

45 £481,736

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FROM FOND DU LAC, LAKE SUPERIOR, TO ANTICOSTI,

* Lake Huron is elevated nine feet above Lake Erie, and Lake Superior is elevated 26 feet above Lake Huron-making a total elevation ubove tide-water, or the ocean, of 600 feet, according to recent surveys.