 Among the numerous topics of conversation, to which his prolific mind, and excursive imagination gave birth, was that of improving the means of intercourse with the interior of our state. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed...  Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society - Page 303by Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - 1879Full view - About this book
 | New York (State). - 1825 - 660 pages
...of improving the means of intercourse with the interior of our state. He then mentioned the project of tapping lake Erie, as he expressed himself, and...river, directly across the country to Hudson's river. To this I very naturally opposed the intermediate hills and valleys, as insuperable obstacles. His... | |
 | David Hosack - Celebrities - 1829 - 562 pages
...of improving the means of intercourse with the interior of our state. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed himself, and...an artificial river, directly across the country to the Hudson River. To this I very naturally opposed the intermediate hills and valleys, as insuperable... | |
 | Jared Sparks - France - 1832 - 544 pages
...was that of improviog the intercourse with the interior of our State. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed himself, and...an artificial river directly across the country to Hudson River.' Mr Geddes, one of the principal surveyors and engineers of the Erie Canal, has declared,... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1880 - 480 pages
...intercourse with the interior of our State," and, " he then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie and leading its waters in an artificial river, directly across the country, to the Hudson." Mr. DeWitt adds that he considered the thing romantic, and as such, related it on several... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) - 1904 - 260 pages
...with the interior of our state. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed it himself, and leading its waters, in an artificial...river, directly across the country to Hudson's river. To this I very naturally opposed the intervening hills and valleys as insuperable obstacles. His answer... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (Md. and Washington, D.C.) - 1904 - 246 pages
...with the interior of our state. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed it himself, and leading its waters, in an artificial...river, directly across the country to Hudson's river. To this I very naturally opposed the intervening hills and valleys as insuperable obstacles. His answer... | |
 | New York (State). State Engineer and Surveyor - Public works - 1906 - 1096 pages
...that his first intimation of this idea came from Mr. Morris, in 1803, when he " mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed himself, and...an artificial river, directly across the country to the Hudson River." James Geddes said that he heard it for the first time, in 1804, from the Surveyor-General.... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1908 - 576 pages
...of improving the means of intercourse with the interior of this State. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed himself, and leading its waters, in an artificial river across the country to the Hudson. To this I very naturally opposed the intermediate hills and valleys... | |
 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1908 - 622 pages
...of improving the means of intercourse with the interior of this State. He then mentioned the project of tapping Lake Erie, as he expressed himself, and leading its waters, in an artificial river across the country to the Hudson. To this I very naturally opposed the intermediate hills and valleys... | |
 | Richard H. Love, Carl William Peters - Art - 1999 - 960 pages
...with Gouverneur Morris at an inn in Schenectady to hear about the "project of tapping Lake Erie . . . and leading its waters in an artificial river, directly across the country to the Hudson River."2'' It became, however, the unenviable task of one Jesse Hawley to write while in... | |
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