Excerpt from History of the Canal System of the State of New York, Vol. 1: Together With Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada Five, permission having been given by Mr. O. P. Austin, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics. That the practice of canal-building is very ancient cannot be doubted and that the people of a remote antiquity built great artificial channels and were followed by successive generations of canal-builders for thousands of years before the seemingly essential canal-lock was invented, is readily seen from a brief review of their works. 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.

Excerpt from History of the Canal System of the State of New York, Vol. 2: Together With Brief Histories of the Canals of the United States and Canada Made originally of wood; rebuilt of cement masonry at heads. And dry walls with timber and plank facings in chambers; when abandoned, locks were: 1 stone life - lock l guard-lock and 10 lift-locks of stone with timber fenders in chambers, and 16 composite if't-locks. 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.