384 measured the unusual length of eight feet lacking half its soil is now rapidly improving, it appears that years an inch, and others from the farms of Mr. Green and back it was so barren, it obtained the cognomen of "Kildier Hill," which is perpetuated to this day-af. Mr. Botton, all of this town, reached nearly seven feet in length. A stalk of clover, from Mr.Botton's farm, mea-ter the adage which is frequently used in common paris too poor to keep a kil sured three feet, which is but a fair specimen of a field lance, that such a country Whatever truth belonged to the observation of several acres. Every day seems to add fresh health dier." and vigor to the crops, and we are gratified to be in- some time ago, its cause is now vanishing, for there. formed that their appearance in general, is quite en-abouts are now many excellent farms and good agriculturalists.-Village Record. couraging.-Germantown Telegraph. COATESVILLE, This village is situated on the Lancaster turnpike, 13 miles from West Chester, and 30 from Philadelphia. It is in the Great Valley, one of the most fertile vallies in Pennsylvania. It contains from thirty to forty or fifty houses-among which are three taverns, one of which is conducted on Temperance principles-several stores -a Presbyterian Church, a school house, &c. The town has an air of business, and like most of our country villages, its inhabitants are generally mechanics, active and industrious. Coatesville possesses an unusually picturesque and pleasing situation. The Valley Hill, bounding the view is on its north side, and another high hill rises one or two hundred yards on the south. The Pennsylvania Rail Road, for a considerable distance, is in full view; and a magnificent bridge is erected at this place over the waters of the Brandywine, towering above 80 feet in the air, stretching across a chasm five or six hundred feet wide. Since the completion of the rail road a new spirit of enterprise has arisen, which promises almost to double the size of the place. At the junction of the rail road and the turnpike, a few rods west of the old town, a number of building lots have been sold at high prices by Mr. James Yearsley, and two dwellings, a large tavern house, a store and smith shop, are rapidly ap proaching completion. Other buildings are contemplated in the spring, a new tan and bark house is now being built, and two cellars for dwelling houses are already finished. We must not omit to mention, among the improvements, a depot lately erected on the rail road by our friend, Mr. Benjamin Miller, and a contemplated branch rail road to Luken's rolling mill, a few rods south of the village. On a short visit, last week, we were struck with surprise at the numerous improvements. Coatesville is one of the oldest towns in the county-and derived its name from Moses Coates, formerly a landholder. We were told by an elderly citizen of the neighborhood, that upwards of 30 years ago it consisted of only one or two houses, a smith shop, a store and a tavern. Returning, our course to West Chester was over the hill on the south side of the village. It is not without some labor you gain the top, but when there the beautiful scenery amply compensates the lover of the picturesque. The name of the hill we could not ascertain; but it undoubtedly affords one of the handsomest prospects in Chester county. On the south, the spectator has before him a small valley, completely surrounded by high hills: in the valley are two or three large farm houses, and Mode's Paper mill; along the southern side flows the Brandywine, the course of which is distinctly marked by the green cedars and pines which grow upon its banks. On the north, the town of Coatesville affords a delightful view-apparently situated under the high bridge, which towers far above the house tops. From Coatesville, the usual route to West Chester is by Romansville and Marshalton. The former place is popularly known as "Kildier Hill," and the latter as the "Centre House." Having fallen in with a respectable farmer of the neighborhood of Romansville, we acquired quite a knowledge of its local history. Though Kittanning, Armstrong Cy. Pa. June 3. SHEEP. A fine flock of merino stock sheep, of near. ly 500 head, belonging to Mr. Samuel Patterson, of Washington county, passed through this place yester day, on their way to Wayne township. They are really an acquisition. WOOL. The Washington (Pa.) Reporter of the 2d inst. says, "Lots of wool, grading between 7-8ths and full blood, have been sold during the past week at 56 cents per lb. The prices now offered range from 33 to 60 cents. At the vendue of James Gilmore, Esq. deceased, the wool sold at 57 cents per lb. the grade being between 7-8ths and full blood, and the sheep as followsweathers $150 per head; weathers and ewes $3 50; ewes with lambs $5.”. WOOL-The following article from the Commercial List and Philadelphia Price Current, of Saturday last, is deserving the attention of farmers generally: This article is becoming one of the greatest importance to our country. Indeed, it would be difficult to account for its culture having so long been neglected, where all the means of producing it, are so abundant. We know of no part of the world where Wool has been higher on an average, for the last ten years, than in this country, and no one better calculated to raise it for export, than this. Instead of making it an article of remittance to Europe, we have been, and are at present importing it in large quantities, the importer realizing (it is said) a fair profit for his enterprise. By the growth and manufacture of Wool, England has added immensely to her wealth and power. Her clip has been estimated for some years past, to exceed one hundred and forty millions of pounds annually: while here, with a soil and climate better adapted for its growth, with lands at about one eighth the price, and ten times more extensive; we do not produce more than seventyfive millions of pounds. In 1830, after a careful investigation, the number of sheep in the United States were estimated at twenty millions, producing fifty millions of pounds of Wool. At the present time a fair estimate would probably be above twenty-eight millions. Pennsylvania especially, with her unoccupied hills and dales, should look seriously to this matter. We believe that no state in the Union is better adapted for the growth of Wool, yet New York is at present considerably in advance of her. The clip in New York is estimated at six millions of pounds, while that of Pennsylvania is only four to four and a half millions. Either of these states could annually produce twenty millions of pounds, without decreasing any other of their present productions. There are several counties in the Western part of this State that have entered with great spirit into this business, and "sheep farms," (as they are there called) are rapidly advancing in value. Among these we would instance Washington, Fayette and Greene coun ties. The former county alone, will probably sell this year above half a million of pounds of Wool, yielding at least two hundred thousand dollars in cash, as the finer qualities of Wool are principally grown there. HAZARD'S REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. VOL. XV.--NO. 25. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 20, 1835. CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL. Sixteenth General Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.-June 1, 1835. No. 389. been completed, and would of course have been of no value. But the claimant under the verdict, having stood by wh 1st the Company were issuing proposals for loans in the public newspapers; and borrowing money, time afThe Board of President and Directors of the Chesa ter time, on the faith of pledges thus publicly stated peake and Delaware Canal Company, in offering the and given to the loanees; has now come before the present Report, and the Treasurer's account, are under Chancellor of Maryland, and asks, that these securities the necessity of presenting to the proprietors a state- should be declared null and void, and that his claim ment of difficulties and embarrassments encountered may come in before them. No decision has been had since the last annual meeting, which have caused anxiety on this application. Application was also made to the and trouble to those engaged in the management of the Chancellor of Maryland, for the appointment of a reaffairs of the Company, and loss to all who are inter-ceiver of the tolls of the Canal. This was granted, so ested in it. far as respects the tolls to be collected at the Maryland end of the Canal. From this decision an appeal was made, and the case taken to the Court of Appeals. A further application has been recently made to the same Chancellor, for a decree to order the real and other property of the Company to be sold-as well that part of it in Delaware as that in Maryland. A final decision on these several points will probably take place in a few weeks, and there is a well founded belief that the judgment will be adverse to these extraordinary claims. The Board are confident that the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company had the same right to borrow money, to aid in the construction of their Canal and the purposes incidental to it, as the several corporations for making internal improvements in Pennsylvania, Maryland and other states, who have resorted to that expedient, as the only available means to enable them to effect the great, and beneficial objects, for which they were char Although it is a source of regret to the members. of the Board that they cannot give a more favourable statement, yet it is due to themselves and the Stockholders that an accurate exposition of the concerns of the Company should be made, however gloomy it may appear, that those interested may have an opportunity of forming correct opinions of its present situation. In the last Annual Report the Stockholders were informed that a verdict against the Company, for a very large amount, had been obtained, in one of the courts of the state of Delaware, by a contractor, whom the Board of Directors had felt themselves under the necessity of discharging from their service, and that exceptions had been taken to the decisions on some of the law points involved in the case. These points have not yet been brought before the Court of Appeals, where they may be taken for five years from the date of the verdict, and are ultimately to be decided. The deci-tered. sions on them may annul the former proceedings and verdict. Since this verdict has been obtained, strenuous efforts have been made to render it available, by resorting to different processes of law, and by the aid of po pular feeling. To enlist the latter, various efforts have been made, through the medium of the press and by other means. The law proceedings have been duly attended to; the others were unnoticed. Proceedings of a different character were commenced in the early part of last season and continued for several months, in the state of Delaware; probably with the view of harrassing those engaged in the trade through the Canal; and by thus interfering with and preventing it, to coerce those interested in the Company into a payment of the claim under the verdict. The captains of vessels about passing through the Canal, after having paid the required toll to the officers of the Company An attempt was made. during the last session, to in Maryland, when the vessels were passing from that procure the passage of a law by the Legislature of De- state, and in Philadelphia, when going from thence, laware, to enable a judgment creditor to sell the correceive a regular receipt for the toll paid, with an order porate rights and franchises of the Company, and by to pass through the Canal in right of such payment; the such sale vest them in the purchaser. Notwithstand- Company of course having no further claim, debt, or ing the powerful interest and influence, that was brought demand against them for toll. Notwithstanding this, to bear on the subject, the bill was rejected. The which is matter of public notoriety, and susceptible in Board feeling it an imperious duty to guard the interests most cases of complete proof, the captains in some hun. of the Stockholders and the just creditors of the Com-dreds of instances have been arrested and held to bail pany, did not of course concur in this project. as garnishees, and in each case oath or affirmation is made as follows: "that garnishee above named, is not an inhabitant of New Castle county, and that he, the deponent, doth verily believe that the garnishee is indebted to the defendants in the sum of ." In default Whatever might have been, under any circumstances, the opinion of the Board of the justice of the large claim referred to-had they even supposed it well founded, they had not funds to pay it-and could not (as they believe,) either in law or equity, give that claim a priority over others arising from money loaned to the Company, for the formation of the Canal, and for which a mortgage of the tolls, and all other property of the Company had been given, previous to the verdict which it has been endeavored to make precede them -the claims under which would have been of no avail without these loans, as the Canal could not have VOL. XV. 48 the of finding bail, which has been the case with strangers, they have been cast into prison, and kept there until the amount of indebtedness sworn to was deposited as a pledge-or bail procured for their appearance at a court to be held months after, and in some instances far from their homes. During these proceedings, the vessels were necessarily prevented from prosecuting their thus been inflicted on a vast number of persons inter ested in the results of the Canal trade, who are entirely unconnected with the matter in controversy-a controversy which hitherto has only resulted in loss to all the parties, and a diminution of the ability of the Canal Company to meet demands against it. It may be proper to state, that since the proceedings before the Chancellor of Maryland, no arrests of captains have been made, and the trade of the Canal has been increasing. of Canal, are now in good order. The locks, bridges, waste weirs, and banks on the voyages, causing losses to all concerned, either in yes- Under these agreements, the charters of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company were granted by Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. The charter declares as follows, viz: "That the said Canal and the works to be erected thereon in virtue of this act, when completed, shall forever thereafter be esteemed and taken to be navigable as a public highway, free for the transportation of all goods, commodities, or produce, whatsoever, on payment of the tolls imposed by this act; and no toll or tax whatsoever for the use of the waters of the said Canal, and the works thereon erected, shall at any time hereafter be imposed by all or either of the said States." The charter also declares, that if any vessel shall pass without having paid the tolls, she may be seized and sold by the officers of the Company. After the sale of the vessel, the person having direction of such vessel shall be liable for such toll, if the same is not paid by the sale of such vessel." Thus, under the charter, captains of vessels are not liable for toll even to the Company, until recourse is first had to a sale of the vessel, and the funds arising from the sale being insufficient to pay the toll. Yet after a compliance with all the requisitions of the Company under the charters, persons have been arrested and inprisoned in a place where they are strangers and without friends, in doing what the charters of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Ma ryland declare they shall have a right to do, viz: use the Canal as a "public highway," after payment of the tolls imposed by the Company in conformity with the charter. The embarrassment and annoyance to which persons passing through the Canal have been thus subjected, has been effected by means of processes under the laws of Delaware; the law which is said to be most applicable to the cases, having been passed subsequent to the charter of the Company. During the past season, two slips or sinkings-in of the sides have occurred in that part of the Canal called the Deep Cut. Although they did not occasion a stoppage to the business of the Canal, yet they caused a considerable expenditure in the necessary removal of a large quantity of earth from the banks, to prevent its falling into the Canal. places has been used to raise and strengthen the towing path, which had been washed away, when the em bankment on Broad creek was broken, in the spring of 1834, The foundation of the Maryland pivot bridge had been then so greatly injured, and the superstruc ture was found to be so much decayed, as to render a new bridge indispensable. This has been made more securely, and of greater stability, than the former one. The new embankment across Broad creek, in place of that carried away, has been made so strong, and is so well protected, as to prevent the apprehension of any further accident; and it has now stood for several months the test of a pressure of a full head of water. The earth taken from these The Canal and reservoirs are now filled with water, which will probably prevent a recurrence of the diffi culties experienced during last summer from the want of it, the deficiency of the supply then, having been caused mainly by the loss of a large portion of the wa ter from the upper level of the Canal, by the breaking of the embankment referred to-and as this happened at the commencement of the dry season, the apprehensions of a deficiency of water, which were stated in the last Report, were fully verified. The want of water in the upper level of the Canal, prevented for some months the larger class of vessels from using it. This circumstance, in addition to the difficulties and embarrassments to which the trade on the Canal has been subjected, by the arrest of those engaged in it, has prevented many persons from entering into it, who otherwise would have done so; and obliged many others, who previously had made their voyages by way of the Canal, to abandon it, and make them by sea. These various causes have diminished the tolls below the amount received the previous year, and made them fall far short of what, under different circumstances, they might have been fairly estimated, The tolls received since the last Annual Report amount to $47,511 30, and having principally arisen from vessels laden with the following articles, viz: 290 packets carrying merchandize. 826 vessels carrying wood, 678 do, and arks, carrying lum. ber, 72 do. do. 98 do. 184 do. 2741 do. Efforts were made by some of the persons aggrieved to test the validity of these arrests, at the court held at New Castle, in November last. But the cases were not tried; and it has since been agreed between the counsel of the parties, that the different classes of cases should be stated and submitted to the Court of Appeals to be held at Dover early in the present month. It is confidently believed, that when the proceedings referred to shall be brought before a judicial tribunal, they cannot be sustained, and that a recurrence of them 4889 will be prevented. The system of annoyance, which has been so long and so tenaciously pursued, has diminished the advantages arising from the Canal, not only to those directly interested in it, but also to the public at large. Injury has do. do. do. 20,897 cords. 18,143,000 feet. flour, 15,350 barrels. wheat, corn, &c. 130,610 bushels, oysters, 3,886 tons. cotton, iron, coal, whiskey, &c. and vessels returning empty. The following statement shows the number of pas sages through the Canal, and amount of toll received during the corresponding periods of the last and pr ceding years. From Number of Passages. and arrived at Lancaster at half past one o'clock; fare From Del. From Ches. Total. two dollars and fifty cents. Reminiscences. 1267 5438 Although the present Report does not give a flatter. Ing view of the concerns of the Company, yet on the other hand it may be proper to state, that the increasing trade on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, the Chesapeake and Ohio, and Dismal Swamp Canals, give promise of an increase also of the trade of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The position of this Canal, its great capacity, and the many avenues leading to it, Both naturally and by the internal improvements now in successful operation-and that contemplated on the lower part of the Susquehanna-all point out to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal as a great thoroughfare; and strongly indicate that the Company to which it belongs will ultimately be successful. The members of the Board confidently trust the Company will yet triumph over the many difficulties it has encountered. and repay those by whose aid a great public benefit, at least has been achieved. This supposition is strengthened by the fact, that other canal companies in our country, after having experienced difficulties and embarrassments of various kinds, have surmounted them all, and are now in a state of increasing usefulness and prosperity. Signed by order and on behalf of the Board of President and Directors. R. M. LEWIS, President. S. GRIFFITTS FISHER, Secretary. For the Register. TRAVELLING IN 1784 AND 1835. In the year 1784, Frederick Schaeffer established a travelling accommodation by a stage, which occupied three days in going and three in returning to Lancaster from Philadelphia. In the year 1788, Frederick Dosh run a two horse stage between Lancaster and Philadelphia, in two days going and two returning. In 1794, the turnpike having been completed between Philadelphia and Lancaster, Mathias Slough placed a four horse stage on the route, driven by Jonas, a driver of some celebrity, in one day going, and one in returning, between the hours of two o'clock in the morning and eight in the evening; fare six dollars. On the eighth of June, 1835, the Cars by the Rail road, left Philadelphia at half past eight in the morning, after breakfast, REPORT OF ALONZO LIVERMORE, ENGINEER. FRENCH CREEK AQUEDUCT, October 31st, 1834. Superintendent of the French creek division, of the Pennsylvania Canal. Sir-I herewith hand to you my annual report, em. bracing the information required from the secretary of the Board of Canal Commissioners, relative to the present state of the work upon the French creek division, as pertaining to my department. The new work not heretofore reported finished, comprehends the Franklin line, twenty-two and a fourth miles, and the north and west ends of the feeder, four and a fourth miles, altogether twenty-six and a half miles, in extent; eighteen and a half miles of this is slackwater, and eight miles of canal navigation. The towing path along the pool of the feeder dam which was not fully staked out until this year, gives a small difference in the distance as heretofore reported. The new work added to the old feeder line, nineteen and a half miles, makes the whole length of the French creek division, to be forty-six miles, eighteen and a half of which is slackwater, and twenty-seven and a half of canal navigation. The mechanical work upon the new line of this di vision, consists of twenty-one locks, twelve dams, one culvert, three towing path bridges, seven road and farm bridges, seventeen lock houses, and six waste wiers. one of wood, four of these are guards, eight are lift The locks, twenty are of cut stone masonry, and locks with guard walls, and nine lift without guard walls. The whole rise and fall overcome is one hundred and twenty-eight and a half feet. The dums upon this line are built with cribs of timber filled with stone, and cut stone abutments, laid in the New York hydraulic lime. The average length of the dams, in clear of the abutments,is two hundred and sixty seven feet. The lowest is six feet, the highest sixteen feet, and the average height ten and a fourth feet. Most of the dams having been completed last fall, have been in some measure tested as to their permanence by the floods of last winter and spring. We find that those which have not less than three feet base, to one of perpendicular rise for the breast slope, gives to the descend. ing water such an oblique impact upon the gravel be low the dam, that the excavation caused by the water, is thrown so far below the lowermost breast timbers, that no injury appears likely to result to the foundation of the dam itself. Two of our dams which had not this slope, the water had excavated so near the foundation as to endanger the work. I therefore directed an additional breast, which has been made this season, and I feel confident that our dams are rendered permanent, if due care is taken for their preservation. The feeder dam it will be recollected was left last fall in a very precarious situation, as regards the work done, on account of the exhaustion of the funds. We found this spring that most of the work done was washed away. This and the additional breasts on the two dams, above mentioned, have swelled the expense upon those items, in some measure, but our contingent allowance of last year, will fully meet this addition, besides all other expenses of a contingent nature. There are no aqueducts upon this line, and but one culvert. This is situated upon section No. 36 of the Feeder line, and is built of cut stone masonry, the opening or passage for the water is two feet square. There are three towing path bridges, all upon the Franklin line, the abutments and piers are cut stone masonry, and the superstructure of wood. There is one road bridge across the canal opposite Franklin, the abutments of cut stone and wood superstructure; all the other road and farm bridges, six in number are built of wood. There are six waste wiers, including those around the locks, four of them built as slope wall and pavement, the others of wood. The tabular statement, herewith submitted, contains all the important details, not otherwise mentioned. that final estimates have been returned from the engineer departments, upon all contracts entered into for the construction of new work upon the West Branch division. The lower division of the Lycoming line, extending from the pool of the Muncy dam to the Loyalsock feeder, was completed and the water admitted into the upper levels about the last of June. On the fourth of July, the first boat, "The James Madison," ascended the canal and moored at the western bank of Loyalsock creek, since which period the navigation from that point has been uninterrupted, except during a few days of unusual drought, when the water in the creek proved inadequate to supply the levels. It is not, however, anticipated that any scarcity of water will hereaf ter occur, as the quantity furnished by the feeder dam The Franklin line, and the north end of the feeder, is at Dunnsburg, is abundant; which, aided by the Loyalnow ready for public use. The west end of the feeder sock, will in my opinion be amply sufficient for all the will be ready by the middle of November next. A purposes of transportation. Should this supposition, scarcity of hands has prevailed upon this line the whole nevertheless, be found by experience to be erroneous, season, owing to the prevalence of the fever and ague the supply may be very considerably augmented by cutin that neighborhood. Hands have also been scarce ting off the water power which at present propels the upon our whole line since the harvesting season com- Loyalsock mills, owned by Tunison Coryell, Esq. The menced. This cause and the late time we received or- Board are aware that the site of Mr. Coryell's mill dam ders to prosecute our work (about the 1st of May) in was selected as the most eligible for the erection of a the spring, give the reason why our canal was not rea- feeder dam, and that he in consequence claims the dy by the time mentioned in our last report. right of tapping the canal with his race-the level of The total cost of the work will stand as follows, viz: which being lower than the canal, gives him a perFranklin line, $340,363 90 petual head of water, whether there is a sufficiency for 68,860 12 the purposes of navigation or not. Privileges so important in their consequences as those asked by Mr. Coryell, and hitherto tacitly allowed, should most certainly only be granted under proper limitations and restrictions. The vested rights of individuals, it is true, cannot be held too sacred; when our citizens cease to be protected by government in their rights of property, one of the strongest cords in the ligament which binds civil society together, will have been severed: but that protection can only be afforded by the legitimate exer cise of sovereign power. Individual and local interests must yield to the general good; and if damages are thereby sustained, let the party injured be promptly remunerated, and full and ample indemnification made against all pecuniary privations. In this point of view, public policy seems clearly to dictate, that the magnificent works of internal improvement constructed at the expense of the State,should be solely under the control of her public functionaries, free from all associations or partnerships, and not subject to the caprice of any interested individual. Feeder line, new work, Total cost when finished, Balance, $32,595 33 $441,455 45 $1,102 89 This balance will be requisite to complete any fencing not yet contracted for, also to add foot-ways upon the lock gates that are yet not completed, &c. It must be recollected that all money remaining as per centage on abandoned jobs, is embraced in the es. timate, therefore should the Board of Canal Commissioners direct the payment of this to the contractors, it will in no way interfere with the sum or balances left in the aforementioned calculation. New work on the old line. The amount done this year consists in finishing two waste wiers, one bridge and embankment. Amount estimated on these jobs this year is one thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-four cents.Amount yet unfurnished in order to complete the bridge, embankment, &c., is three hundred and seventy-five dollars. The upper division of the Lycoming line, being in such a state of forwardness as to justify the admission of the water, it was let into the canal, through the guard lock at the feeder dam, above Dunnsburg, on the fifteenth of September; and, although its progress was greatly retarded by the dryness of the season, and the consequent loss of water by soakage and evaporation, the levels have all been filled, and boats laden with merchandize, coal, plaster, &c., have ascended the canal to its junction with the Bald Eagle creek. Thus proving to a demonstration that the supply of water furnished by "the High dam," (as the feeder has been significantly termed,) may be relied upon in times of REPORT OF W. F. PACKER, SUPERINTEN-ter has seldom, if ever, been known to be lower in the the greatest drought with absolute certainty. The wa All of which is respectfully submitted. WEST BRANCH DIVISION. DENT Engineer. To the Board of Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen:-In conformity with the requisitions of the acts of assembly, and in compliance with the instructions of the Board of Canal Commissioners, as communicated by their Secretary, I beg leave, respectfully, to submit the following REPORT. In offering the present communication to the Board, it affords me infinite gratification to state that the entire line of canal under my charge has been completed; and West Branch than it is at the present period, and yet it gives me pleasure to state that there is no scarcity in the canal, and that all apprehension for the future may be dismissed. As the banks become saturated, the loss from filtration and soakage must necessarily be dimin ished; and an increased supply for canalling purposes will be the inevitable consequence. The feeder dam was completed about the first of January, and judging from the slight effects produced by the ice freshet of no doubt remains in relation to its permanency. About last spring, and the floods which have since occurred, one hundred and twenty feet of the breast plank were taken off by the ice, which was the only injury sustain |