Excerpt from An Enlarged Water-Way Between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Seaboard While it is not probable, and perhaps not possible, that the Erie Canal can ever be made to perform a greater part, or as great a part, in the development of the country than it has already performed, yet on account of its past usefulness it is necessary to briefly sketch its history. It extends from Buffalo on Lake Erie to Albany on the Hudson River, a distance of miles, with 71 locks 7 feet deep, 110 feet long and 18 feet wide. The total lockage is 657 feet. This was in 1865, and the total cost of the canal up to that time had been $38. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.