In the course of ten or eleven years it was found to be quite intdeqciato to the demands and purposcs for which it was intended. and in 1636 an enlargement was commenced which progressed without interrupting the use of the work for tweitysix years and was conpleted I believe in 182 at a cost of $32.000.000. making the whole expense f that canal $39.000.000. Now. sir. if the State of New York out of its treasry can spend $39.000.000. I think the United States need not hesitate to spend a few huntretd thousand dollars in ascertaining the best plan for feture operations amd itmprovemeuts. To come down still later. forty years ago railroads superseded to a great extent canals. The effect of their introduction was to give an impulse to commerce. and agriculture. and immigration. ad civilization. These railroads brought our hatids generally ii to market. Before that time the lands were principally occupied on or in the vicenity of navigable rivers.
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