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A cursory view, of a proposed canal: from Kendal, to the Duke of Bridgewater's canal, leading to the great manufacturing town of Manchester. : By, the several towns of Milnthrop, Lancaster, Garstang, Kirkham, Preston, Chorley, Wigan and Leigh. Giving a particular account of the internal native productions in the line. Together with the advantages that will accrue to the public. Also, facts and reasons, tending to shew that the canal proposed from Lancaster, to Walton, ought not to terminate there. And with several proposals addressed to the Proprietors of the Grand Canal, between Leeds and Liverpool, laying before them the motives that induced the Lancashire gentlemen, to prefer the Burnley Line to the Padiham Line
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Survey across the Isthmus of Cape Cod State of Massachusetts and Town of Sandwich of a proposed canal between Buzzards and Barnstable Bays
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No old shelf mark. The canal was not constructed at the time, and was proposed again by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1860 ("Report of the Joint Special Committee on the subject of a ship canal connecting Buzzard's Bay and Barnstable Bay." Available from Google Books, http://books.google.com/books?id=0aYrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA6&dq=barnstable+bay&hl=en&ei=ZPAgTOn7OoK7nAe5ud1_&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false accessed June 22, 2010). The canal was finally constructed in the 20th century, with construction completed in 1914. Barnstable Bay appeared on 18th, 19th, and early 20th century maps of Cape Cod and Massachusetts: it appears to have referred to the southern third of Cape Cod Bay, the area it covered receding over time until it was covered only the water immediately north of Barnstable. Submaps: Long Pond to Herring Pond; Profile of the proposed route. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Yards. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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