Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . reat undertaking. The War of1812-15 put the matter at rest for awhile. That war made the transporta-tion of merchandise along our sea-coastsperilous, and the commercial intercoursebetween seaboard cities was carried on ina larger degree by wheeled vehicles. Forthis purpose Conestoga wagons were usedbetween New York and Philadelphia, andwhen one of these made the journey of90 miles in three days, with passengers,it was called the flying-machine. Ithas been oslimated that the amoun
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . reat undertaking. The War of1812-15 put the matter at rest for awhile. That war made the transporta-tion of merchandise along our sea-coastsperilous, and the commercial intercoursebetween seaboard cities was carried on ina larger degree by wheeled vehicles. Forthis purpose Conestoga wagons were usedbetween New York and Philadelphia, andwhen one of these made the journey of90 miles in three days, with passengers,it was called the flying-machine. Ithas been oslimated that the amount ofincroiised expense by this method of trans- ERIE CAlfAL, THE portation of merchandise for the coastlegion alone would have paid the cost ofa system of internal navigation fromMaine to Georgia. government would do nothing in the mat-ter, and the State of New York resolvedto construct the canal alone. Clinton wasmade governor in 1816, and used all his The want of such a system was made official and private influence in favor ofclear to the public mind, especially to the the enterprise. He saw it begun during. LOCKS ON THR ERIE population then gathering in the WesternStates. Then Mr. Clinton, more vigor-ously than ever, pressed upon the publicattention the importance of constructingthe projected canal. He devoted his won-derful energies to the subject, and in amemorial of the citizens of New York,prepared by him, he produced such a pow-erful argument in its favor that not onlythe people of his native State, but ofother States, approved it. The national 253 his first administration. The first exca-vation was made July 4, 1817, and it wascompleted and formally opened by him,as chief magistrate of the State, in a grand aquatic procession from Al-bany proceeded to the sea, and the gov-ernor poured a keg of the water of LakeErie into the Atlantic Ocean. The canalwas constructed at a cost of $7,602, wealth has been won for the Stateand the city of New Yo
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