Note BX — LETTER XXI.
T. G. (Thomas Gamaliel) Bradford translation
The work was begun on the canal, July 4, 1836; it is six feet deep, and 60 feet wide at top; estimated cost 8,654,300 dollars. [The progress of population in that region within the last two years has given rise to new and very important projects. One of these is a canal connecting the Rock River with Lake Michigan, at Milwaukie, and the other is the junction of the Wisconsin with the Fox River of Green Bay, thus adding two links to the chain of communication between the Mississippi and St. Lawrence valleys.—Transl.]