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Immediately above the town commences a rapid on which there is a descent in the river of thirty six feet, affording an invaluable water power. A dam has been constructed to raise the water twelve feet, and a canal to conduct the water into the town with this head is now nearly completed. The number of arrivals of steamboats and other vessels at this port is as follows:

[Table of Arrivals of Steamboats and Schooners, &c. 1835 to 1839]

1840 & 1841 not ascertained but the number continued to increase, if we may judge from the graduall[y] increase of the amount of business done- The following tables are valuable [for] as showing the gradual increase of some kinds of business and the gradual diminution of others