Here, in fine, stood a noted regiment; there moved their great captain;
here the fleets fired their broadsides; and there the whole force rushed on
to battle:
Hic Dolopum manus, hic magnus tendebat Achilles,
Classibus hic locus, hic acies certare solebat.
At teatime we took our tea together, and the next morning this worthy
American walked up with me to the inn in Albany, shook me by the hand, and
then went his way. I bade him farewell and again farewell, and hoped that
Fortune might bring us together again once more. Possibly she may yet do
so; and should it be in England, I will take him to my house as an old
friend and acquaintance, and offer him my choicest cheer. It is at Albany
that the great canal opens into the Hudson and joins the waters of this
river to those of Lake Erie. The Hudson, at the city of Albany, is distant
from Lake Erie about 360 miles. The level of the lake is 564 feet higher
than the Hudson, and there are eighty-one locks on the canal. It is to the
genius and perseverance of De Witt Clinton that the United States owe the
almost incalculable advantages of this inland navigation: "Exegit
monumentum aere perennius.
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