Show THE 11 WORLDS CANALS engineering FEATS THAT HAVE AIDED COMMERCE mear numan lives 1 and millions at boner expended la to the building ol 01 water routes looft longest la the world III la to ahma bm earliest canals date from the time of tho the romans and one ot of them the fosa foss dyke in lincolnshire Lincoln shire can still be used but it la Is to the duk duke of bridgwater that the british poyle must look at itt the initiator of canals as a means of ot transit he lie aided by brindley save gave an impetus to canal ma making king in the country bich resulted I 1 great commercial developments in manchester and liver pool were united by canal and coal and iron industries grew with enor mout rapidity soon miles ol 01 canali were established the total miledge of canals in england is in scotland in ireland of course the manchester ship canal Is the greatest canal in the british islands ita construction was ono one of tho the greatest engineering teats feats of modern times thirty fhe me and a halt half emilei long it cost fraere has miles of canals owned by the state as aro are the canals of belgium and holland the amsterdam ship canal giving an outlet to the north sea is over sixteen miles long took ten yeara years to make and cost though only four milea 11 long the canal across the isthmus of corinth took more than ton ten years to construct and cost nearly sixty miles long Is the baltic canal which starts near kid kiel and joins the elbe at Bruns buttel it cost seagoing sea going vessels reach st petersburg bur by A a canal between that city and Cron twenty miles lone lour lake brie J ale Is connected with the hudson river by a canal which Is part of a system of waterways over miles long owned by new york state canada has after ten years completed a scheme which opens an immense waterway between the great lakes the st lawrence and montreal admitting ships of fourteen feet draught the suez canal is too well known to need description chis waterway of ninety five miles length Is owing to the greater tonnage of present steamers to have its depth increased to thirty feet feel the longest canal Is the imperial canal of china which la Is 1000 miles in length of schemes for canals not yet constructed ted the most famous are those for cutting across the isthmus of panama end connecting the pacific and atlantic oceans and the ri ral rial al project tor for a canal through nicaragua many lives and francs were word lost lo 10 the panama scheme tor for a forty seven mile long canal the nicaragua canal will be miles long it if U Is ever it was started ir in 1889 1839 but want of bianey haa baa retarded its progress bit pit americans favor iti lt and thy haap a way of seeing things through an Interest interesting big has been made for shortening the route to the east toast of india by miles by cutting through the island of hamad i and nud making a channel through the gulf of kanaar and palk strait not now navigable |