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(Continued from p. 25) "...is the difference of improvement - the soil mainly the same a light sandy soil intermixed with gravel - productive - [] and considered salubrious - the ridge road [] from west to east on a rise of 6 or 10 feet from the general surface - & is generally unbroken..."

Oct 3  Rochester the pride of the west, is at the junction of the Canal + Genesee River; and united more of natural advantages + artificial improv[]s than any of the western villages - the hydraulic machinery is here extensive and tobe applied in various departments of the mechanical arts with profit - there are from 4 to 600 houses, stores, shops + many of the buildings are erected of stone + brick, the public buildings are not yet numerous, 5 or 6 churches are built and building - the Canal here crosses the Genessee river about 12 feet above its surface - and the Aquaduct  is formed of hewn stone, supported by 11 stone arches of red granite for strength, & beauty, perhaps there is no one point in this stupendous work of human hands that exceeds this part of the Canal-"

Original journal courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, Delhi, NY. Further information on the Sherwood Family is available in the Letters and Journals of Samuel and Laura Sherwood (1813 - 1823), edited by John Crocker, Delhi, NY, 1967,  available in the Delaware County Historical Association Archives and Milne Library, State University of New York College at Oneonta.