A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States

George Armroyd

ISBN 10: 1528002849 / ISBN 13: 9781528002844

Editore: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Print on Demand. This book is a comprehensive narrative of navigation improvements in the United States from their inception through 1825. It details the history, motivations, and construction of over 150 projects and examines their transformative impact on travel, trade, and economic activity. The book illuminates the ambition, resourcefulness, and collaboration that characterized early American infrastructure development. By exploring the origins of America's vast and intricate system of internal waterways and canals, the author provides a valuable historical account and demonstrates the importance of these waterways in the nation's growth and prosperity. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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• Titolo: A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1528002849
• ISBN 13: 9781528002844
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Tipo di libro: print-on-demand item
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Geography

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Excerpt from A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States; Natural and Artificial, Present and Prospective: Corrected and Improved From the Edition of 1826, and Much Enlarged, From Authentic Materials, Down to the Present Time

In the interval, however, ere the social world can be thus ably and in extenso informed touching this great but youthful member of the commonwealth of civilized nations, and its com ponent qualities and materials, the present inquiry and partial delineation will, it is hoped, present something of a satisfactory character. It will lay Open to the intelligent reader at a dis tance, through a plain statement, a connected series of facts and circumstances appertaining to the one exclusive topic under taken; and, being unmixed with other subjects, save here and there some incidental matters that have claimed to be noticed, may, perhaps, on that account, be the better suited for convey ing a clear and impressive idea Of what the particulars stated are intended to designate, namely - the precise point of advancement arrived at, and actual prospects of the country in this department of her career in prosperity.

But as the actual existence of the various works of improve ment herein detailed, together with the mode and manner of their execution, necessarily implies, in the higher attributes of the nation, attainments, capabilities and views to correspond and harmonize, so there can be no doubt the enlightened reader and philanthropic economist and politician, will be enabled to elicit general conclusions nothing short Of being satisfactory to his own mind, and some particular ones, and both perhaps not the less certain of an early verification for being on a scale of no inconsiderable dimensions. And in aid Of his closer calcula tions as to particular points, it is hoped that a variety of suthen tic, statistical, and other information, and some remarks thereon, which will be found partly interspersed among the articles of this composition, and partly as an appendage, precedent to the General Rail Road article, the Canada article, and the Index, may be received with favour, and prove useful.

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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.