[50] Plans for a canal around the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville), were projected early in the nineteenth century. The Ohio Canal Company was incorporated in 1809-10, Congress and the Kentucky legislature conditionally subscribing for shares of its stock, but nothing was accomplished. About ten years later the Jeffersonville Ohio Canal Company was organized to build the canal around the Indiana side of the falls. Construction was begun, but again the project fell through. Finally the Louisville-Portland canal was commenced in 1825 and completed in 1830, Congress having assisted to the extent of 2,335 shares of stock. This canal soon proved inadequate, and in 1872 it was surrendered to the national government. An enlargement was immediately undertaken, being completed in 1881.--ED. [51] Another intention by raising the waters of the Schuylkill is, I understood, to supply Philadelphia with its water.--WELBY. [52] This year fine new cyder was plentiful in Ohio State, at a dollar a barrel of thirty gallons.--WELBY. [53] For the early history of Washington and Brownsville, see our volume iii; F. A. Michaux's _Travels_, note 23; Harris's _Journal_, note 32.--ED. [54] A short sketch of Uniontown and Fort Cumberland may be found in Harris's _Journal_, volume iii of our series, notes 47, 49.--ED. [55] For a brief account of Fredericktown, see A. Michaux's _Travels_, in our volume iii, note 70.--ED. [56] The British forces under Major-General Ross landed at North Point, at the mouth of the Patapsco, twelve miles from the city. Proceeding along the North Point Road to Baltimore (September 12, 1814), they had marched about four miles when their advance was checked by the American forces under General Stricker. A sharp engagement followed, in which Ross was killed, but the American troops were forced to fall back towards Baltimore. The battle monument, situated on Monument Square, was begun in 1815 and completed ten years later. It is not a national memorial, but was erected by the citizens of Baltimore. In 1839 Baltimore dedicated a second monument on the North Point battle-ground.--ED. [57] Some farmers, on this account, feed their cattle with corn, and thus putting it upon legs send them to the Eastern markets; we met many large droves of these cattle.--WELBY. [58] In the Middle and Southern states the ruffed grouse (_Bonasa umbella_) is called a pheasant. The English pheasant (_Phasianus colchicus_) does not exist in the United States. Similarly, the American partridge is entirely different from the English, being the bob white or quail (_Ortyx virginiana_).--ED. [59] George Louis Buffon (1707-1788) was a noted French naturalist, and for many years was intendant to the royal gardens. Abbé Raynal (1713-1793) published (1770) _Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes_.--ED.