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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...ready to admit, that, if to be navigated by boats propelled by oars or poles, the Kanhaway river would have been nearly as useful, by merely clearing out the principal obstructions; but, with the use of light steam-boats obeying readily the rudder, the advantages obtained will, I think, be considerable. Only one of the sluices was as swift as 4 J miles an hour when I measured their current (there being then a slight rise in the river.) How then can it be doubted, that steam-boats capable of a velocity of ten miles an hour could stem them; and, if they could, why should they not answer as good a purpose on that river as they do on others? Steam-boats have ascended the Susquehanna, which is a more rapid river, at the rate of from four to five miles an hour, at different stages of its waters; and some benefits are expected from their use in navigating it But the Kanhaway offers by far greater advantages. It has little fall; the sluices are but few; the ponds of still water very long; hence a steam-boat might move up generally at the rate of eight miles an hour, in the long ponds of still water of this river, and though occasionally its velocity would be reduced to four or five miles an hour at a sluice, it would be but for a short distance; and, therefore, if the cost of transportation would be (as calculated above, and also established by facts, ) $1 05 per ton per 100 miles, for a velocity of 8 miles an hour, I question much whether the sluices would raise it to as much as $ 1 25. All this, of course, applies to a low stage of the river. In times of floods, the steam-boats would have to encounter a con tinuous current But, the time of these swells constitutes but a small proportion of the year; and, when they are somewhat considerable, the present ascending n..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231255797
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 123125579X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 395 gr


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