Perhaps you could charter a canal boat.

"It is useless," as Rohrbach puts it, "to sink from 150 to 600 million marks in restoring the canal system, and then let the land lie idle, with all its new dams and channels, for lack of cultivators.

He saw the whole ghastly business, the police on the canal banks, watching the slow progress of the men with their drags bringing to the surface all the miserable refuse of the turgid waters, the dripping black mud, perhaps at last....

He contemplates handling annually 375,000 tons of cereals and 1,250,000 cwt. of cotton, and estimates the future by the effects of the Chenab Canal in Northern India "a canal traversing lands similar to those of Mesopotamia in their climate and in the condition in which they found themselves before the canal works were carried out....

An artist, meeting her musing on a canal-bridge one day, went home and painted a May-flower budding in February.

GROSSMAN, LOUIS I. Root canal therapy.

The Thames tunnel is too amphibious an affair to be included in the number; but the ship canal project, the bridge-building mania, and the penchant for working mines by steam, evidently belong to them.

"You'd have found it significant that Blackburn laid the foundation of his fortune in Panama during the hideous scandals of the old French canal company.

The utility of canal navigation is universally admitted.

It appeared as they lifted him ashore that the Doctor, beside the inconvenience of a stomachful of dirty canal water, was suffering considerable pain.

Having secured a passage on board a canal packet about to start, I at once embarked, and in a few hours after was running up the Erie Canal at the rate of six miles an hour, the boat being towed by four light horses of high mettle.

What was the matter, anyhow?" "Well, all of our machinery isn't working as smoothly as we'll have it later," the canal engineer explained.

exclaimed Joe, as he looked over the side and noticed many vessels lying about, most of them connected in some manner with the canal construction.

But, thanks to the activities of the American sanitary engineers the mosquitoes are greatly lessened in the canal zone.

The canal commissioners of the State have desired me to communicate with you, desiring such data as you may have in your possession relevant to the subject.

It was a sense of personal loss which had driven him out on to that canal path, a murderer at heart.

Miller?" said Mrs. Potter, "one of those old canal debts?"

She was like the Thorndykescity folks, educated people, who could have no use for a clodhopper like me, a canal hand, a rough character.

So the marl borer went with the canal digger.

Teams of horses and waggons seemed to be always going to the canal wharf for coal, which he ordered from the pit wholesale.

A voice at that moment hailed from one of the boats across the water to know what was the matter, and half a dozen porters, canal-men, night watchmen from the warehouses, came running around the head of the basin; but before they could arrive, a man dashed out of the darkness behind the two watchers, tore past them, and sprang for the boat.

The idea of the sea-level canal appeals to the popular mind, which pictures an open ditch offering free and unobstructed navigation from sea to sea, but no such substitute is offered for the present lock canal.

The name of Governor Clinton is not so pre-eminently united with the canal policy of America, as is the name of the Duke of Bridgewater with the canals of England.

Impelled by these considerations, the United States took steps at an early day to assure suitable means of commercial transit by canal railway, or otherwise across this isthmus.

By the canal road between the Venern and Vigen, on the bare, dry rocky plain there stood, like beauty's thistles in that poor landscape, a couple of beggar-boys, so ragged, so tattered, so picturesquely dirty, that we thought we had Callot's originals before us, or that it was an arrangement of some industrious parents, who would awaken the traveller's attention and benevolence.