| Show tibe and trave the new elbe and trave canal which has been building five yeara years and has been completed at d L cost ot of 24 in marks arks 5 was formally open ed by the german emperor in june the length ot of the new canal Is about forty one mils the available breadth ot of the canal is seventy two WD feet breadth of the lock gates forty six feet reet length of the locks eighty seven yards depth of the locks eight feet two inches the canal Is crossed by twenty nine bridges erected at a cost of 1000 1 the span of tho bridges Is in all cases not lees less than thirty yards and their height above water level about fifteen feet there are seven locks |
