Excerpt from The Canadian Canals: Their History and Cost, With an Inquiry Into the Policy Necessary to Advance the Well-Being of the ProvinceTo readers not intimately acquainted with the geography of Canada and of the State of New York, referenceto a Map will be necessary. This information can be supplied by any ordinary Atlas. The extent of the territory com prised, would have made the preparation of a Map, on a sufficient scale, a work of time, and it is considered inad visable to delay the appearance of the book in order to include it.In closing these remarks, I feel it incumbent on me to thank those gentlemen who have assisted me, by answering my inquiries, or by obtaining for me the public documents I needed. In many instances, I have been laid under deep obligations, of which I entertain a very high sense.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.