A history of travel in America : showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent (1915)
A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA … 196. — Scene on the Morris Canal, in New Jersey. On this canal the boats were lifted and lowered 1,334 feet to different levels by means of twenty- three inclined plane railways. Only 223 feet were overcome by the lock system. The boats were eight and a half feet wide and from sixty to eighty feet…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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