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1881 Dv friends and officers of the Government, especially by Con- 

 gressional representatives in the United States Congress from the 

 Western and Northwestern states that a bill, with liberal pro- 

 visions, authorizing the work was passed by a large majority of 

 both branches of the Legislature of the State of New York. 

 There was also a reasonable prospect that a donation of public 

 land would be made in aid of the project. But the exciting 

 political questions which engaged the attention of the people from 

 1 854 to 1 860 prevented further action on the question. Since it 

 is supposed that Capt. Eades has started a new idea concerning 

 the transportation of ships by rail across the Isthmus of Panama, 

 it may be mentioned here that, in connection with the Niagara 

 Ship Canal, it was proposed, if it should be constructed, to trans- 

 fer ships of the largest size from the level of the Niagara river 

 to that of Lake Ontario by rail, in floating docks or tanks. 

 Another part of the plan was to furnish an inexhaustible water 

 power to be used at the Lewiston ridge, below which a city of 

 fountains was to be built. It is not impossible that the project 

 may be consummated as a work of necessity for the following 

 reason, if for no other, namely : that all the great water courses, 

 east of the Mississippi, are gradually shrinking in capacity, so that 

 in dry seasons like those of the last four years they cannot answer 

 the demands made upon them. 



1881 (The) Middle states: a handbook for travellers. . . . Bost. : 



Osgood. 1881. Pp. 177-184. 



1881 SwEETSER, M. F. ed. The middle states; a handbook for travellers. 

 Sweeher . § , 4th ed. Bost. : Osgood. 1881. Pp. 177-186. 



1882 



1882 HOLDER, THOMAS. A complete record of Niagara Falls and 

 Holder vicinage, being descriptive, historical and industrial. . . . Niagara 



Falls: Published for the author. 1882. 

 Polite advertising schemes, illustrated. 



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