Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 313
seas, of whichthe recently completed North Sea Canal is the sixteenth, and it needhardly be said the greatest, so that in comparison with it the rest vanishinto insignificance. The canal was commenced in 1887, and on the 20thof June, 1895, it was opened by the reigning Emperor of Germany,William… … Fig. 137^:.—Sketch Map of The Norih Sea Canal. canal as a highway of cominerce. The entrance to the Baltic has hithertobeen round the peninsula of Denmark and through the narrow belts and sounds that divide the Danish Islands, a course beset with imminentperils to navigators, for the channels…
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-104-379.webp)
