Excerpt from Newspaper Clippings on the Wabash and Erie Canal, Vol. 2: April, 1835 January, 1841Tinned to increase until the sum of the resistance equalled that of of the weight of the boat, it would, practically speaking, have actually rode upon the wave. That we might rightly comprehend the extraordinary facts above stated, connected with high velocities on Canals, let us take a brief view of the experiments made in England on this subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.