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Excerpt from Prospectus of the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal Company To connect this traffic with the Atlantic Ocean the existing waterways are the Erie canal through the State of New York, and the St. Lawrence River and system of canals reached from the upper lakes by means of the 'welland canal. A few brief comparisons will serve to shew the superiority of the Ottawa route over either of these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.