HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 14 HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 14 (2) The Great American Canals Volume II The Erie Canal CHAPTER I THE MOHAWK AND ITS IMPROVEMENT CHAPTER II EARLY PROMOTERS AND THEIR DREAMS CHAPTER III CLINTON'S MEMORIAL [30] CHAPTER IV PLANNING, BUILDING, AND OPENING CHAPTER V LOCAL INFLUENCES OF THE CANAL CHAPTER VI THE CANAL FUND AND ENLARGEMENTS APPENDIX A ACT OF APRIL 17, 1816 [73] APPENDIX B ACT OF APRIL 15, 1817 [74] Transcriber’s Note: Obvious errors in spelling and punctuation have been corrected. Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text body. Also images have been moved from the middle of a paragraph to the closest paragraph break, causing missing page numbers for those image pages and blank pages in this ebook. |