8o Canals Their Uses. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



CANALS. 



1. In this part of the chart you see a canal 

 with locks and gates. Here is a canal-boat 

 drawn by horses. Canals are artificial rivers. 



2. There is one in the State of New York 

 that is three hundred and fifty-two miles long. 

 It reaches from Lake Erie to the Hudson 

 River ; and this canal has done much to make 

 the city, as well as the State, of New York so 

 large and wealthy as it is. 



3. If you will look at your map you will see 

 that any kind of produce from the farms, the 

 forests, or the mines can be brought by vessels 

 from the far western shore of Lake Superior 

 or of Lake Michigan, many hundreds of 

 miles distant, all the way by water to Buffalo, 

 thence by this long canal to the Hudson 

 River, and down this river to the wharves 

 of New York City, from which it can reach 

 all the navigable waters in the world. This 

 water-carriage is the cheapest of all. There 

 are no rails to be paid for or to put down, but 

 any man can move about wherever he chooses, 

 up and down the navigable rivers, or to and 

 fro for thousands of miles " over the broad 

 bosom of the ocean." 



4. Look at the map, and you will see that a sailing 



