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the Linnaeus, Captain Peck, ran to New Haven, fare three dollars. The dimensions of these boats were less than those of the transfer boats that now ply between Brooklyn and Jersey City, without equal accommodations and with very much less speed. The steamboats Constitution and Constellation were launched in the early part of this year, and, when engined, were put upon the route to Albany, by an association known as the Hudson River Line, in opposition to the Old or North River Line, which was ultimately rendered bankrupt by this competition.

The Mowatt Brothers, owners of the steamboat Henry Eckford, proposed the novel project of transporting merchandise and produce between New York and Albany in barges towed by a steamboat, and in pursuance of the design, the Henry Eckford was advertised to start from the foot of Rector Street with two barges in tow. As the design was generally held to be impracticable, the attendance did not exceed one hundred and fifty persons (of whom I was one) ; it was generally asked, if the engine of one boat was well employed to transport itself, how could it effectively transport two others?.., At the appointed time, with a punctuality worthy of imitation, the boat moved off with her load, and reaching Albany in the practicable time of twenty-four hours, the operation was acknowledged to be a success.

Up to this year, when tow or tug boats were introduced, sailing vessels were navigated from Sandy Hook around the city, and even through Hell Gate, under their canvas alone. Vessels of war, beating from the Navy Yard down the bast River and Bay, were a frequent and interesting sight.

Charles 'Hall, a prominent merchant of this city, generally known by an undesirable sobriquet, built the ship Washington, of 979 tons old measurement (equal to about 1120 of the present, for a hull of her dimensions and model), and stayed her lower masts with chain

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