. The James river tourist, a brief account of historical localities on James river, and sketches of Richmond, Norfolk, and Portsmouth. was opened abouthalf way across—that is, about sixty yards and thenabandoned. The city laid off here was called Henri-copolis, or the City of Henry. It was afterward, in com-mon use, contracted to Henrico. Standing on an elevation on the island, one may heresee what appears to be four rivers, such are the meandersof the James. General B. F. Butler, in 1864, undertook to cut thecanal through the narrow neck, with the object of allow-ing the Federal gun-boats to
. The James river tourist, a brief account of historical localities on James river, and sketches of Richmond, Norfolk, and Portsmouth. was opened abouthalf way across—that is, about sixty yards and thenabandoned. The city laid off here was called Henri-copolis, or the City of Henry. It was afterward, in com-mon use, contracted to Henrico. Standing on an elevation on the island, one may heresee what appears to be four rivers, such are the meandersof the James. General B. F. Butler, in 1864, undertook to cut thecanal through the narrow neck, with the object of allow-ing the Federal gun-boats to evade the heavy Confed-erate batteries on Hewletts Bluff, other endof the island. The Confederates daily shelled the work-ing parties, and many men were killed in the had, however, nearly completed the canal to adepth of five or six feet when, he says, he received anintimation from the naval authorities to cease work, asthey feared, from a formidable demonstration the Con-fedenite gunboats had then but recently made, that thelatter would come through the canal and interfere withthe Federal Hunting Outfits. A, SAKS & CO 1003 Main St., OPPOSITE P. 0. RICHMOND, VA. HENRY BUCKER S STEAM BOTTLING WORKS. il Agent for GEO. EHRETS New York Lager Beer. GEO. EHRETS NewYork andSCHLITZ Milwaukee Export Beers a Specialty. 2120 AND 2122 EAST MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, VA. (42) THE .7AMES RIVER TOURIST. 48 111 1871 and 1879, by expenditures of considerablemoney by the United States Government and city ofRichmond, the canal was deepened und widened andmade navigable. Its length is four hundred and eighty-one feet, width about two hundred and fifty, depth ofchannel-way sixteen feet at low tide. In March, 1879,while a party of men were engaged on the north bank inthe work of widening the canal, the premature explosionof a can of nitro-glycerine killed M. C. Heggarty, EliasG. Hall, and Alexander Brown, and wounded others. \arlna, or Ailteiis Lraiidiiig^.—In
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