A Treatise On the Improvement of Canal Navigation

Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to be Derived from Small Canals

And Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide, Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen

WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINERY FOR FACILITATING CONVEYANCE BY WATER THROUGH THE MOST MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRIES, INDEPENDENT OF LOCKS AND AQUEDUCTS:

INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON THE GREAT IMPORTANCE OF WATER COMMUNICATIONS

WITH THOUGHTS ON, AND DESIGNS FOR AQUEDUCTS AND BRIDGES OF IRON AND WOOD

ILLUSTRATED WITH SEVENTEEN PLATES

BY R. FULTON, CIVIL ENGINEER

LONDON.

PUBLISHED BY I. AND J. TAYLOR AT THE ARCHITECTECTURAL LIBRARY, HIGH HOLBORN 1796

MINUTES of a Committee of the board of Agriculture, holden Friday, March 4th, 1796
To Messrs. Jesop, Whitworth, Outram, Miln, and Rennie
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Of the Origin and Progressive Improvement of Canals
Chapter 2 - Of the Importance of Canal Navigations, and the Benefits of arising the Society by Easy Communications
Chapter 3 - On the Formation of Canals, and the Mode of Extending them into Every District
Chapter 4 - On cutting Canals for Coasting Vessels, River, or Forty-ton Boats, in Order to save the Transfer of Cargo to Boats of Smaller Dimensions
Chapter 5 - Of the particular Construction of the Boats, and their Application to various situations
Chapter 6 - Description of the Second Plate exhibiting a Double-Inclined Plane, for the purpose of passing boats and their Cargoes, to and from, the different Ponds, or Levels in Canal Navigation
Chapter 7 - Of the System of Navigating
Chapter 8 - On the Saving of Water
Chapter 9 - Description of the Single Inclined plane
Chapter 10 - Description of the Medium Plane for a small Ascent, being a Medium between Locks and Planes
Chapter 11 - Of constructing Aqueducts
Chapter 12 - The Mode of Crossing rivers and gaining Height at the same Time, performing the Double Operation of an Aqueduct and Locks
Chapter 13 - The Parallel Plane
Chapter 14 - Of Perpendicular Lifts to pass Boats
Chapter 15 - Description of the Perpenticular Lifts
Chapter 16 - Description of Plate XI
Chapter 17 - Description of Plate XII. representing the Second Mode of passing the alternate Trade by a perpendicular Lift
Chapter 18 - Of Cast-Iron Rail Roads
Chapter 19 - On Conclusion of the Small Canal System
Chapter 20 - Plate XIII. represents an Aqueduct of cast iron
Chapter 21 - On Bridges
Chapter 22 - Plate XIV. On Bridges of Iron
Chapter 23 - Plate XVII. Of Bridges of Wood
To Thomas Mifflin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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