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Updated: June 11, 2025
Thus merchandise might be water-borne from the channel to the Mediterranean, without risking the five or six months' voyage by sea then required from Havre to Marseilles, and exposure along the whole coast to attack from the corsairs of England Spain and Barbary.
The following figures, showing the tonnage carried in 1888-89, give some idea of the volumes of water-borne traffic in America: Except on the Mississippi, it may be reckoned that navigation is closed by ice during five months a year. It may be mentioned, by way of comparison, that the traffic on the Suez Canal during the year 1888-89 was 6,640,834 tons.
The annual deaths from ordinary water-borne diseases exclusive of cholera have fallen from 3558 the average number at the time the new system was introduced to 1195.
Just as she was water-borne, Le Compte dashed a bottle against the tiller, and shouted, at the top of his voice, "succes a la Belle Emelie." I turned to Emily, and saw by the blush that she understood French, while the manner in which she pouted her pretty plump lip betrayed the humour in which the compliment had been received.
Such shortsighted, vacillating, and futile methods are accompanied by decreasing water-borne commerce and increasing traffic congestion on land, by increasing floods, and by the waste of public money. The remedy lies in abandoning the methods which have so signally failed and adopting new ones in keeping with the needs and demands of our people.
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