Tarry at home travels . View OF the Erie Caxal, at the 1 u i s, Mohawk an engraving published in London in 1831. plan of a moderate descent of half an inch in amile. I believe the engineers to this hour thinkthat the original construction reflected great honoron those self-taught engineers who were engagedin that work. They managed to build it forseven million dollars — an investment which 308 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS has been repaid to the state again and againand yet again by the wealth, not to be calculated,which has made the city of New York what it isand the state of New Y
Tarry at home travels . View OF the Erie Caxal, at the 1 u i s, Mohawk an engraving published in London in 1831. plan of a moderate descent of half an inch in amile. I believe the engineers to this hour thinkthat the original construction reflected great honoron those self-taught engineers who were engagedin that work. They managed to build it forseven million dollars — an investment which 308 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS has been repaid to the state again and againand yet again by the wealth, not to be calculated,which has made the city of New York what it isand the state of New York what it is. Of course the cargoes which move from theWest to the East on the canal-boats are much. Ekie Canal, an early engraving. more bulky than those which pass from the Eastto the West. A dollars worth of grain takesmuch more room and weighs more than a dollarsworth of jackknives. Of course, also, it takeslonger for a barge-load of grain to float from
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