Notes on some of the chief navigable rivers and canals in the United States and Canada, made for the government of Madras, during a tour in 1876. [With] Plates - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...mills, or 3Jr cents and 3 cents respectively per bushel (bushel of wheat GOlbs, bushel of corn 561bs.) from Buffalo to tide water at the Hudson. In 1830, the toll on a barrel of flour for the same distance (345 miles) was 55 cents; it is now 11 cents. The tolls are collected by actual weight of cargoes, the boats being taken into "Weigh Locks" (of which there are 5 at different points along the canal) and weighed;--a deduction from the gross weight is made for that of the boat, which weight is kept registered, and for that of the bilge water in her, which is gauged at the time. This system cauaes much trouble, delay and expense, and on a State canal, where direct profits are not of primary importance, or indeed of great importance at all, it seems to me that the annual licensing of boats, as on the Godaveri and Kistna canals of Madras, is preferable. The canal is closed by ice generally from about the first Season, week in December to the last week in April. The average open season may be taken as 220 days. In 1828, navigation continued for 269 days; in 1873 it was possible for only 202 days. In some years the piling up of ice in Buffalo harbor by westerly gales has virtually delayed for some days the opening of the canal after it was itself clear of ice. Branches of the Erie Canal.--The great success of the Erie canal induced in the New York State a canal fever, which was aggravated bj' financial and political jobbery, and resulted in the construction of a number of branches, most of which have not paid for their maintenance and have swallowed up the large profits of the main canal, leaving the State a loser on the whole system of canals by, to end of 1861), 7,473,992 dollars, thus arrived at:--Dollars. Total cost of construction of Erie canal an...
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