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Twenty years before the American Revolution, George Washington saw the need for East-West water transport up the Potomac Valley; after the war he became president of the Potomac Company, which built canals and locks to bypass falls and shoals in the Potomac River itself. The waterway eventually became the famed Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, and by the mid 1800s, its mule-drawn canal boats hauled great tonnages of freight between Washington and Cumberland, Md. But over the next 100 years, the railroads forced it into disuse...
...only path through the jungle was by river. Soon Clark reached a waterway, bought five Indian slaves, built a couple of rafts and launched into the heart of cannibal country. It was not long before flights of arrows from the river banks warned them of their welcome. Cornered one night, Clark and his men beat off raiding Indians hand-to-hand, killing five. But Indians kept after them. Clark and three others were later surrounded and captured, had to watch helplessly while one man was forced to swallow a blazing firebrand: "The smell of burning flesh filled the air. Finally...
This done they set sail for Boston, via the Gulf Stream. But off Florida, a bitter north caster slammed into the Stream, making progress just about impossible. Davis headed westward to the Inland Waterway. The average depth of the waterway is eight feet; the Miru's draft is eight feet. These two factors caused 13 groundings on the way, one of which left the Miru high and dry until a new tide...
From the Inland Waterway, the Miru hauled out to sea, out in through the Cape Cod Canal, and five months after leaving Wellington, stood off Boston Harbor at dusk on November 2. It was night when she reached the Upper Harbor; her New Zealand flag, tattered and discolored, was unrecognizable. A dimunitive police boat greeted Miru, and escorted her to her temporary berth on the Charles...
Thomas R. Davis, enroute to the School of Public Health, said he plans to sail to Boston via the inland waterway. The 45-foot ketch docked late last night after a stormy trip from Morehead City...