Excerpt from Examination and Survey of Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor: Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting, With a Letter From the Chief of Engineers, Reports of Examination and Survey of Buttermilk Channel, New York Harbor The project. Adopted for Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, under authority of the river and harbor act of 1899, contemplates a width of feet and a depth of 40 feet at mean low water, and these are the dimensions in view in this examination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.