[293] M. Picard in ‘Les Chemins de Fer de France,’ in 1884.
[294] ‘Edinburgh Review,’ for October, 1882.
[295] Paper by Mr. G. R. Jebb, on “The Maintenance of Canals, with special reference to Mining Districts,” ‘Journal of Society of Arts,’ 1888.
[296] The London coal supply is largely carried, in competition with the sea, at the remarkably low rate of ·5d. per ton per mile, and even less.
[297] ‘Report of the Tenth Census,’ vol. iv. p. 133.
[298] Of this number there were 3958 barques, 382 half barques, 248 boats, 1676 floats; 6264 in all.
[CHAPTER XXXIII.]
THE MAKING OF ARTIFICIAL WATERWAYS.
“When, with sounds of smother’d thunder, On some night of rain, Lake and river break asunder Winter’s weakened chain; Down the wild March flood shall bear them, To the saw mill’s wheel, Or where steam, the slave, shall tear them, With his teeth of steel.” —Whittier.