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Laa diagrammes suivants illuatrent la mAthodo. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 (CIRCULAR) St. Cutharinei, ZSlh June, 1 82K J/ §iv, EVERY exertion has been made bv a few Indlvidunls in thii District, to connect Likes Erie and Ontario, with a Navigable Canal. They have obtained an Act of Incorporation, and Stock to the amount of fj/^i/ r^ouMMrf Oo///.r,s, principally from Lower Canada. The company are now regular y organ- l7,o«l according to Law. Tliey have had the Koutes explored by skilful and experienced Engmeers, and hnd, by the Report of Messrs. Cr.owKs, it will require the sum of Twenty-Six Thousand Pounds to complete the Cana from the Hivor Welland to Lrke Ontario ; and the Directors think It advisable, not to csmmence operations until tjtocic is subscribed tO this amount. A i.THOUOii this sum is trifling to a degree compared with the object of the undertaking, still the' greatest digicutty is experienced in getting it suliscrlbed — There is a great want of enterprise throughout the country, and a very great scarcity of money ; l>esides which an unfavourdblc opinion of the ultimate profit of this undortaking to the Stockholders emanated from Gentlemen possessing the greatest Capital, and mo« influence in the District, and hai been circulated both in this and the Lower Province, greatly to the prejulice of the present stockholders, and has deterred others from coming forwtrd that were otherwise favourHbiy dii'posfcd. TiiE President and Directors have determined on appealinss to the public spirit of the Land-Holders through- out the Province:— \ similar .n.Msure was adopted in tlie State of New York prior to the commencement o( the Grand Erie Canal, and donations, in Land, received to the an ount (^ose million op dollars. The Holland Land Company gave One Hundred Thousand Acres; Gideon Grainger '«r>:ananddigua, Ten Thousand Actes,— The Inliabiiants evinced the warmest attachment to their country by flie zealous maimer in which they detendca it last war, and we have no doubt they feel an equal interest for its improvenaent. BrsIdes, if the opinion advanced by some shpuld prove correct, and the Stock turn out unproductive, it would be uogrneroiis for one part of the community to have their property enhanced at the expeuce of the other For it is a well established fact that Canals add 30 per cent, to the value of all property connected by them. Suppose two countries, similarly situated, in soil, climate, and every other local advantage, the one possessing good roads, the other water communication, — coromodites of all descriptions will be furnished by the latter, 30 per cent, cheaper than the former, or in other words, the latter would be one-third richer than the former. Canals diminish the distance between places, and encoiirage the settlement of the most remote parts of the conntrj. They create new sources of internal trade, and encourage manufactures of all descriptions. — Surely, ry country can foel the want of this branch more than ourselves. TiiET unite cheapness, celerity, certainty, and safeiy, in the transportation of commodities : a Loaded Boat oan be taken from the Mouth of the Grand River to Lake Ontario, in two days, carrying 30 tons, with one man and boy, and two horses ; allow eauh man and horse one dollar per day, and the tolls to be double the expence of transportation, it will not exceed five shillings per ton ; add to this. 50 per cent, it will only bring Flour to nine pence per barrel However, the fairest way to make calculations on an undertaking of this hature, is to establish precedents :— The Americans take one barrel of Salt, weighing 300 lbs. from Salina to Rochester, One Hundred & Two miles, from iSto 20 cents per b-rrel. If we charge the same rate forsixty odd miles, it will bring Flour from tbii tceii and a half to sixteen cents. Staves from two to four dollars per thousand ; and all oiher articles pro- portionabty less. We would likewise call your attention to the present dancer of navigating Lake Erie from the Mouth of Grand River to Fort Erie, and the immense advantage of navigating that Lake one month earlier every season.* Land Owners on Lake Ontario, although they may not feel their immediate interests connected in this under- taking will derive great advantage from its accomplishment, by the encrcased employment of vessels, hands, &c. &c. on this Lake, and trade of every descridtion. In case it is not effected, the produce of all the Upper Coun- try, the most fertile part oi Canada, must find its way to the United States. We have endeavoured to ?tite these facts in a clear and fail" point of view — Our object, by this Circular, iit to notify you that we intend calling on you with a subsci-ption, the purport of which will be, that in case the Welland Canal Company completes a Canal between the mouth of the Grand River and Lake Ontario, within fivo years from January next (182.5,) that you will give them so many acres of Land, siiusted so and so. On this additional Security, we will endeavour, either to borrow money or induce Subscribers to come forward and take lp the remainder of the Stock, that we may proceed immediately and complete the undertaking. Tri/stikr it will meet with your favoura'de consideration. I have the Honour to be, Sir, (Signed,) Your Most Obedient, Servant. GEO. KEEPER, President, TVdland Canal Company. * The Ice remuin's every Spring some time on the North End of Lake Erie, longer than to the Souih-West •^So that the Navigation is open from the Streights of Detroit, (o the Mouth of the Graud River, soma wciLn before it is optn to Fort Erie, and Buffalo.