[12] Id., p. 16.

[13] MS. Letters on Canals by Philip Schuyler and Simeon De Witt, 1793-94, Lenox Library.

[14] Historic Highways of America, vol. xiii, ch. 2.

[15] History of the ... Western Canals in the State of New York, pp. 92-93.

[16] Id., pp. 93-94.

[17] Sparks, Life of Gouverneur Morris (Boston, 1832), vol. i, pp. 497-498.

[18] Id., p. 498.

[19] Id., pp. 498-499.

[20] Laws of the State of New-York relative to the Canals (Albany, 1825), pp. 38-39.

[21] Id., p. 42.