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...what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would cut west across dry land for 30 miles to a point about 20 miles from the Gulf. There it would pick up the Withlacoochee, follow its course...
...which a few boosters promoted for profit or publicity. Those who knew anything about the surveys understood that all the official reports made on the canal had been adverse; that the canal would cost $200,000,000 or more; that with interest at even 2% on the investment, the waterway would never pay for itself; that with no interest, tolls would pay for the investment only after about 80 years...
...Suez Canal today is a great convenience to the world's shipping but before it was built in 1859, Britain's great Lord Palmerston saw it as a potential menace to the British Empire. On the open seas Britain was supreme. The Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then...
...Canal remain open to all, in peace and war. But Great Britain then stipulated that so long as she occupied Egypt, she might disregard the Convention if it conflicted with British and Egyptian interests. Thus, during the World War, Great Britain practically seized the Canal, made it a British waterway. The British protectorate over Egypt expired in 1922, but Egyptian defense remains a British responsibility...
...Erie boaters, for whom the "canawl" was a way of life as well as a waterway, preferred to ignore this threat to a picaresque existence which was the more pleasant because it was so leisurely, the more adventurous because it contrasted so sharply with the sleepy green countryside through which the horses pulled the boats. Against a detailed and wholly charming background, made up of boaters' quarrels and friendships, their odd songs and foolish curses, their contempt for hogs as cargo, their obstreperous pride in getting drunk and having fights, the picture outlines an incident which fits perfectly into...