item: #1 of 4
          id: 22347
      author: Hughes, Vincent
       title: Through Canal-Land in a Canadian Canoe
        date: None
       words: 5351
      flesch: 61
     summary: Getting through in our turn, after a short delay caused by a string of canal barges coming through to catch the morning tide, we entered upon the Grand Junction Canal, which extends form here to Braunston, a distance of some hundred and six miles. We did not relish the situation at all, I can assure you, especially as we could not take stock of our whereabouts; but after a deal of rocking and shoving (during which we had a narrow escape from capsizing), we managed to get the canoe clear of the walls, and worked our way backwards, hand-over-hand, to the mouth of the tunnel.
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 31383
      author: Dabney, Thomas Ewing
       title: The Industrial Canal and Inner Harbor of New Orleans History, Description and Economic Aspects of Giant Facility Created to Encourage Industrial Expansion and Develop Commerce
        date: None
       words: 19864
      flesch: 67
     summary: This is the Canal that was finally built--nearly 70 per cent larger than the one that was begun and about 100 per cent larger than the one originally planned, when the newspapers and forward-looking told the people that the lack of such a canal had cost New Orleans millions of dollars in development. [Illustration: WILLIAM O. HUDSON President, Board of Commissioners of Port of New Orleans] FOREWORD.
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 47351
      author: Hulbert, Archer Butler
       title: Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West
        date: None
       words: 61805
      flesch: 58
     summary: W., 201 Marcus Whitman, 337 Marietta, O., 116, 121-125 Marietta College, 125 Martin, Captain Joseph, 93, 97 Maryland, 239-248 Massie, --, 124 Mauch Chunk, Pa., 242 Maysville Road Bill, 74 McDougal, Duncan, 291, 296 McKee, --, 189 McKenzie, Donald, 291 Meadow of Light (Lichtenau), 31, 141, 313 Meigs, --, 119 Memoir (Greenhow), 330 Mercer, Colonel, 49 Mercer, --, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 352 Methodist missions to Indians, 304 Michigan, 105 Milan, Erie Co., Ohio, 145 Millstones from Alleghanies, 55 Missionaries to Indians, 304, 309-319, 326-328, 332, 333 Mohawk Valley route, 62, 76, 78, 214 Monroe, President, 191-193 Moravian Brethren, 31, 115, 131-146, 304, 305 Morris, Gouverneur, 35, 210-212, 218 Mounds in Ohio Valley, 170 Moundsville, W. Va., 170 Mowry, William A., 337 NATIONAL Road Stage Company, 199 Neville, Presley, 57 New Albany, Ky., 176 New Philadelphia, Ohio, 131 New York City, 241 North Carolina, 30, 87, 98-100 Northwest Company of Montreal, 282, 287, 288, 290, 294, 296 OCONOSTOTA, Cherokee chief, 90 Ohio, 30, 31, 76, 100, 105, 113-147, 243 Ohio Company, 48, 49, 92, 113-125 Ohio National Stage Company, 199 Old Two-Horn, 125 Ordinance of 1787, 41, 79, 92, 112-115, 117, 123 Oregon Emigrating Society, 331 Oregon Territory, 301-338 Origin of the Erie Canal, The, 219 Owens, David, 166-168 PACIFIC Fur Company, 291, 292 Parker, Rev. Samuel, 308, 309 Parkersburg, W. Va., 167 Parsons, --, 120 Pennsylvania Canal, 249-254 Pennsylvania Railway, 249, 250, 254 Pennsylvania Road, 118 Perryopolis, Fayette Co., Pa., 55 Philadelphia, 241 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway, 253 Pickell, --, 189 Pike, Zebulon M., 272-277, 281 Pilot stage line, 200 Pioneer stage line, 200 Pittsburg, 115, 163, 168 Platt, Judge, 218, 219 Polk, James K., 353, 354 Porter, Hon. The Potomac Canal Company--soon re-named the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company--was formed, and chartered by Virginia.
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 47435
      author: Pratt, Edwin A.
       title: British Canals: Is their resuscitation practicable?
        date: None
       words: 45868
      flesch: 56
     summary: It is none the less interesting thus to find that Parliamentary revisions of railway rates were, in the first instance, directly inspired by the extortions practised on the traders by canal companies in the interest of dividends far in excess of any that the railway companies have themselves attempted to pay. In their earlier days canal companies simply provided a water-road, as it were, along which goods could be taken by other persons on payment of certain tolls.
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