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 (Classic Reprint)

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<br><br>Five permission having been given by Mr. O. P. Austin Chief of the Bureau of Statistics.<br><br>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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.