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narrow stream of water, | into by the lock Wood creek, a small rapid narrow stream of water, so shoal that it would have been impossible for us to have got along, had we not been aided by a flush of water let out from the canal, and by the dead water formed by 4 wooden locks ^ below the Canal which [crossed out: the Canal Co.] have been built to aid the navigation; | ||
that it would have been | notwithstanding all this our boats were frequently aground, tho' they drew only 12 inches water; indeed I can scarcely conceive how the large Durham boat I described at Little falls could ascend so shallow a brook, which is scarcely so wide as the fourth | ||
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not been aided by a | |||
the dead water formed by 4 | |||
built to aid the navigation; | |||
notwithstanding all this our | |||
were frequently aground, | |||
they drew only 12 | |||
indeed I can scarcely conceive | |||
how the large Durham boat I | |||
described at Little | |||
ascend so shallow a brook, which | |||
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into by the lock Wood creek, a small rapid narrow stream of water, so shoal that it would have been impossible for us to have got along, had we not been aided by a flush of water let out from the canal, and by the dead water formed by 4 wooden locks ^ below the Canal which [crossed out: the Canal Co.] have been built to aid the navigation; notwithstanding all this our boats were frequently aground, tho' they drew only 12 inches water; indeed I can scarcely conceive how the large Durham boat I described at Little falls could ascend so shallow a brook, which is scarcely so wide as the fourth