Memorandum on the Growth of the Traffic on the Great Lakes and the Proposed Ottawa Ship Navigation
Author | : Montreal Ottawa Georgian Bay Canal Co |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 1396275703 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781396275708 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorandum on the Growth of the Traffic on the Great Lakes and the Proposed Ottawa Ship Navigation: May 1901, Corrected The St. Mary's River is the only waterway from Lake Superior to the Lower Lakes, and before improvement was obstructed in many places by boulders and rapids, the principal fall being at Sault St. Marie of 19 feet. In 1855 the first canal was constructed by the United States government, with a depth of 1 1 feet on the mitre sills. 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.