. Book of the Royal blue . Till. THE PASSING OF THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL. WASHINGTON TOST. OBSERVING the languorous inactivityof the old canal which enters George-town from Cumberland, few of thepresent generation realize, when they strollalong the towpath, throw the tackle intoits placid waters or skim over its surfacein flat-bottomed pleasure craft, the partthe Chesapeake & Ohio waterway was be-lieved to be destined to play in Americaninternal commerce. There are those livingtoday who recall the halcyon days when thecanal was a busy thread of water parallel-ing the Potomac f
. Book of the Royal blue . Till. THE PASSING OF THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL. WASHINGTON TOST. OBSERVING the languorous inactivityof the old canal which enters George-town from Cumberland, few of thepresent generation realize, when they strollalong the towpath, throw the tackle intoits placid waters or skim over its surfacein flat-bottomed pleasure craft, the partthe Chesapeake & Ohio waterway was be-lieved to be destined to play in Americaninternal commerce. There are those livingtoday who recall the halcyon days when thecanal was a busy thread of water parallel-ing the Potomac for some 187 miles, bear-ing hundreds of pug-nosed barges stuffedwith coal, destined for shipment fromGeorgetown, when that city was somethingof a port, to all parts of the civilized with all its greatness the canalprobably never quite came up to the expec-tations of those who gathered on the banksof the river west of Georgetown on a sunnyafternoon on the Fourth of July, 1828, towitness the breaking of ground for thewaterway.
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