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Through fir woods, brown with shadows, the canal winds onward to the magnificent locks of Trollhatten an engineering achievement of which any nation might be justly proud. They are eleven in number, and rise by gradations to a height of 112 feet in a distance of 3550 feet.
In 1710, the number of vessels clearing from English ports was 3550; it was 6614 in 1714; and during the same period the shipping of London increased from 806 to 1550. In 1758, imports from the continental colonies into England stood at £648,683, and from the West Indies at £1,834,036.
His plan provided for a road 3550 miles in length, beginning at Moncton a neutral point between the politically inconvenient rivalries of St John and Halifax crossing New Brunswick northwesterly, skirting the Maine border, and on to Quebec City, where the St Lawrence was to be crossed by a great bridge. Thence it would strike westerly far to the north of existing settlements.
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