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INDEX.
| ACTS OF PARLIAMENT | 5, 17, 54, 59 |
| Adamson, Daniel | 12 |
| Administration | 49-60 |
| Advantages of Canal Transport | 55 |
| Aire and Calder. the | 4, 18, 19, 23-26, 40-42, 54-55 |
| Allport, Sir James | 48, 64 |
| Amalgamation | 51-52 |
| Anderton | 37 |
| Anderton Lift, The | 38 |
| Archipelago, the | 2 |
| Aristotle | 2 |
| Arts, Society of | 55 |
| Attitude of shipowners towards Manchester Ship Canal | 12 |
| Augustus | 2 |
| Austria | 27 |
| Austria-Hungary : Canals in, The State and | 27,28 |
| Avon Navigation | 4, 20, 50 |
| Avon and Frome Navigation | 5 |
| BAYLEY, SIR WILLIAM | 40, 73 |
| Belgium | 27, 64, 67 |
| „Canals in, The State and | 28 |
| „Tolls in, Fixed | 28 |
| „Trade in, Enormous Extension of | 29 |
| „Traffic on Canals in, Increased | 29 |
| Berkshire | 5, 50 |
| Birmingham | 6, 15-16 |
| its connection with the sea | 21-22; 48, 50-51 |
| Birmingham Canals | 7, 22, 24, 53 |
| „Group | 15, 21-22 |
| „Town Council Committee | 21 |
| Blast Furnaces | 49 |
| Board of Trade | 23-25, 54, 57, 65, 68 |
| Bricks, Tolls on | 53 |
| Bridgewater, Duke of, Francis | 5-7 |
| „Canal | 5, 8, 16, 42, 50-51 |
| Brindley | 5-7 |
| Bristol | 50, 51 |
| Britain | 2, 73 |
| „Great | 9, 15, 24 |
| British Canals | 5, 56 |
| „Export Trade | 9 |
| "Brittania" | 3 |
| Brunner, Sir John T., Bart., M.P | 69 |
| Bure Navigation | 4 |
| Burke, Edmund | 9 |
| "CAERDIKE" | 3 |
| Calder and Hebble Navigation | 24 |
| Camden | 2 |
| "Canal and River Engineering" | 3 ​ |
| Canal Companies as Carriers | 53-55 |
| „„as Toll-takers | 53-54 |
| „Groups, English | 15 |
| „Improvements, Continental, | 27-34 |
| „Lock, the | 3, 35 |
| „Shares, 1792 | 6 |
| „Ship, First | 4 |
| „Standard, English proposed, | 26 |
| Canal Transport | 24 |
| Canal v. Railway | 48, 49 |
| Canals, Advantages of | 55 |
| "Canals and Inland Navigation," | 55 |
| Canals and Railways in conjunction | 58 |
| "Canals and their Improvements," | 36, 38 |
| Canals, Compulsory Purchase by by Railway Cos. of | 10 |
| „Disadvantages and Defects of | 56 |
| „Early | 2 |
| „„English | 2-7 |
| „„European | 3-4 |
| „English, Present Condition of | 13 |
| „History of | 2-9 |
| „Introduction into England | 2 |
| „„„Europe | 2 |
| „Railway Owned | 15 |
| „17th Century | 4 |
| „18th Century | 4 |
| „Speed on | 48 |
| „Traffic Capacity of English | 57, 58 |
| Capital, Economy of | 70 |
| Carriers, Canal Cos. as | 53-55 |
| Carrying Load | 64 |
| Cessation of Construction | 11 |
| Chain and Wire Rope Haulage | 42 |
| Changes of Level | 34-39 |
| Cheap Freights and Dimensions | 26 |
| Cheshire | 5, 68 |
| Chesterfield | 7 |
| China | 2 |
| Classification of English Canals | 15-23 |
| Clegram, Mr | 39 |
| Colne, The River | 4 |
| Commercial Pre-eminence, England's | 73 |
| Compulsory Railway Purchase of Canals | 10 |
| Conder, E. R. | 11, 69 |
| Conference on Inland Navigation of 1895 | 69 |
| Congress on Inland Navigation, International, Fourth | 35, 37 |
| Connection of Birmingham with the Sea | 21-22 |
| Construction, Cessation of | 11 |
| Continental Improvements | 27-34 |
| Control of Canals by Railway Companies', Parliamentary Report on | 59 |
| Cost and Freight Rates | 60-69 |
| „of Haulage | 39-42, 46, 47 |
| „of Railway Transport | 60-67 |
| „of Water Transport | 61-63 |
| Coventry Canal | 6, 7, 51 |
| „and Grand Trunk Canal | 6 ​ |
| DEE Navigation | 5 |
| Deplorable Condition of British Inland Navigation | 15 |
| Derwent, the | 5 |
| Developed Traffic causes Reduced Rates | 8, 9 |
| Devonshire, Duke of | 64 |
| Dimensions of Canals | 24-27 |
| „and Speed | 48 |
| „Cheap Freights and | 26 |
| „of the Manchester Ship Canal | 12 |
| „Standard | 26 |
| Disadvantages of Canals | 56 |
| Don, The | 18-9 |
| Droitwich | 7 |
| Drusus | 2 |
| Dutch, The | 3 |
| Dudley Tunnel | 23 |
| Duke's Canal | 7 |
| Durham | 5, 67 |
| EASTHAM 17 |
| Economy of Capital | 70 |
| „„Increase of Haulage | 71 |
| „„Lesser Cost of Plant | 71 |
| „„Maintenance of Canals with increase of Traffic | 71 |
| „„Systems for effecting Changes of Level | 38-39 |
| „„Water Transport | 69-72 |
| Effect of Railway Control on Tolls | 53 |
| „„„Introduction | 10-13 |
| Egypt | 2-3 |
| Electric v. Horse Haulage | 43-47 |
| Enfield | 45 |
| "Engineering" | 43 |
| England's Commercial pre-eminence | 73 |
| England's Inland Transport, Rapid Increase in | 72 |
| English Canal Groups | 15 |
| „Canal Standard, Proposed | 26 |
| „Canals, Present Condition of | 13 |
| „Coal Freights | 67 |
| „Freight Rates | 64 |
| „Waterways, Cost of Transport on | 63 |
| „Waterways, Progress of | 3 |
| Enterprise, Individual | 6, 26 |
| Exeter Ship Canal | 4 |
| Export Trade and Canals, British | 9 |
| FAIRBAIRN, SIR WILLIAM | 13 |
| Fal and Vale, The | 4 |
| Falkner & Sons, Geo | 15 |
| Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, Conference of the | 14 |
| Fellows, Morton & Co | 26, 49 |
| Findlay, Sir George | 65 |
| First Ship Canal, The | 4 |
| Flemish Barges | 29 |
| Forbes, Urquhart | 25, 54 |
| "Foss-Dyke," The | 2 |
| Foxton | 37 |
| France | 27, 29, 34, 64, 68 |
| „A brilliant example | 32 |
| „"Bulletin du Ministere de travaux publics" | 63 ​ |
| France, Canals & Railways in: a comparison | 32 |
| Canals in:— |
| "  Canal de l'Est | 29 |
| "   "  du Nord Est | 30 |
| "  Canals of the Departments of the Nord and Pas de Calais | 29 |
| "  Moulin-Sancroin | 31 |
| "  St. Louis | 30 |
| "  State Canals in | 31 |
| "  Dunkirk | 30 |
| "  Increase of Water Traffic, | 31 |
| "  Loire, River | 30, 31 |
| "  Paris | 31, 68 |
| "  Port-de-Bonc | 30 |
| "  Railways and Canals in; a comparison | 32 |
| "  Reduction in Cost of Transport | 31 |
| "  Rhône, River | 30 |
| "  Rouen | 68 |
| "  Saône, River | 29 |
| "  Seine, River | 29, 31 |
| "  Standard Boats | 37 |
| "  Standard size Lock | 35 |
| "  Tolls on Canals | 31 |
| "  Traffic on Canals | 68 |
| "  Waterways System, Improvements in | 31 |
| Freight-Rates | 8, 19, 61-68, 70 |
| "  Continental Decrease of | 63 |
| "  English | 64 |
| "  on Salt | 67 |
| Freights and Dimensions, Cheap | 26 |
| "  Variation on Through-Routes | 51 |
| Friso, Paul | 3 |
| Froghall Quarries | 49 |
| Fulton, Hamilton | 12 |
| "GAZETTE," The | 6 |
| Gérard, Léon | 45 |
| "  Germany | 2, 27, 32, 36, 63, 67-68 |
| "  Baltic, The | 34 |
| "  Berlin | 33, 43, 68 |
| "  Bresa | 34 |
| "  Canals in:— |
| Berlin-Stettin | 33-34 |
| Brahe | 33 |
| Bromberger | 33 |
| Dortmund-Ems | 34 |
| Finow | 43 |
| "Frischen & Kurischen Haffs" | 33 |
| "Masurischer" | 33 |
| Moselle-Saar | 34 |
| Netze | 33 |
| Oberland | 36 |
| Oder-Spree | 34 |
| Rhine-Elbe | 33-34 |
| Warthe | 33-34 |
| "  Canal Traffic in | 68 |
| "  Cosel | 33 |
| "  Cost of 1900 Canal Bill in | 34 |
| "  Elbe, River | 32, 34 |
| "  Freight-Rates in | 63 |
| "  Hamburg | 67-68 ​ |
| Germany, Havel, The Lower | 33 |
| „Issel, River | 2 |
| „Leipzig | 34 |
| „Mannheim | 34 |
| „Memel | 33 |
| „Oder, River | 33, 34 |
| „Oldenburg | 34 |
| „Prussia | 32 |
| „Prussian Canal Bill | 32 |
| „Prussian Amended Canal Bill | 33 |
| „Prussian Government | 43 |
| „Prussian House of Deputies | 33 |
| „Railroad Union | 63 |
| „Rhine, River | 2, 32-34 |
| „Spree, River | 33 |
| „Stettin | 33, 43 |
| „Strasburg | 34 |
| „Vistula, River | 33-34 |
| „Weser, River | 32, 34 |
| Gloucester Canal | 48 |
| „and Berkeley Ship Canal | 20, 39 |
| Gloucestershire County Council | 21 |
| Goole | 19 |
| Grand Junction Canal | 18-19, 37, 50, 53-54 |
| „Trunk Canal | 6-7 |
| „Union Canal | 18, 50, 53 |
| Great Britain | 9, 15, 24 |
| „Western Railway Co. | 18, 20-21, 54 |
| Greece | 2, 3 |
| HAULAGE | 39-49 |
| „Chain and Wire Rope | 42 |
| „Cost of | 39-42, 46-47 |
| „Economy of increased | 71 |
| „Electric | 43, 47 |
| „Horse | 42, 47 |
| „Oil and Gas Engines | 42 |
| „Steam | 42 |
| Herodotus | 2 |
| Hertford | 18, 45 |
| Hindrance to Trade through lack of Transport | 8 |
| History of English Canals | 2-9 |
| Holland | 67 |
| Horse-haulage | 39-42 |
| „v. Electric-haulage | 47 |
| „v. Steam-haulage | 42 |
| Huddersfield | 51 |
| Hull | 8, 51 |
| Humber Group, the | 15, 18 |
| „the River | 4, 8, 15, 19, 22, 24, 26 |
| Hunter, W. H | 14 |
| Hydraulic Lifts | 37-39 |
| IMPROVEMENT OF RIVER NAVIGATION | 4 |
| Improvements, Continental | 27 |
| „Suggested | 57 |
| Inclined Planes | 3, 36-37 |
| „„advantages of | 37 |
| „„disadvantages of | 37 |
| Inland Navigation, Drawbacks to | 48 |
| Inland Navigation, Fourth International Congress on | 35, 37 ​ |
| Institute of Civil Engineers, Minutes of Proceedings of the | 48 |
| International Congress on Inland Navigation, Fourth | 35, 37 |
| Ionian Sea, the | 2 |
| Irwell, River | 5,8 |
| Italy | 34 |
| Itchini, River | 4 |
| JEANS | 7-9, 39, 51, 68, 70 |
| Johnson, E. R. | 61 |
| Journal of Statistical Society | 63 |
| KENNET | 5, 23 50 |
| LANCASHIRE | 5 |
| Lappal Tunnel | 23 |
| Lark, River | 5 |
| Lea, Navigation, the | 17, 18, 45 |
| Lea, River | 4, 63 |
| Leeds and Liverpool Canal | 5, 16, 40, 42, 51, 55 |
| „Navigation | 51 |
| Leicester | 6, 8 |
| Leicestershire & Northamptonshire Union Canals | 18, 50, 53 |
| Level, Changes of | 34-39 |
| Lincoln | 2, 3 |
| Lift, Anderton | 38 |
| Lifts, Advantages of Hydraulic | 38 |
| „Disadvantages of | 38 |
| Liverpool | 6-10, 13, 22, 50, 51, 65, 66 |
| „Engineering Society | 26 |
| "Lives of the Engineers" | 7 |
| Lloyd, Mr | 50 |
| Lock, Advantages of Canal | 35 |
| „Disadvantages of | 35 |
| „Introduction of | 3, 4 |
| „Large Fall | 35 |
| Locks, Pumping for | 36 |
| London | 6, 18, 22, 36, 38, 50, 51, 67, 68, 73 |
| „and Hampshire Canal | 17, 18 |
| Longford Bridge | 7 |
| Loughborough and Leicester Navigation | 19 |
| Louth | 24 |
| MAINTENANCE, ECONOMY of | 71 |
| Manchester | 7-10, 12-15, 65-66 |
| „Association of Engineers | 73 |
| Manchester Chamber of Commerce | 12 |
| „Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Co | 60 |
| „Ship Canal, the | 9, 12, 14, 16, 19, 36, 66, 71 |
| „Ship Canal Co., the | 16, 17, 51 |
| "Manchester Ship Canal and its Commercial Attributes," The | 13 |
| Manchester Ship Canal and Railway Freights | 65 |
| "Mania, Railway," The | 10 |
| Map of the Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales | 15 |
| Medway, River | 4 |
| Mersey, River | 5, 8, 15-17, 22 |
| „and Irwell | 5, 8 |
| „and Trent | 10 |
| „Group, the | 15-16 |
| Midland Railway Co., the | 64 |
| Midlands, The | 67 |
| Monopoly, Result of Railway | 11 ​ |
| Morton, Fellows | 49, 50 |
| "NAVIGABLE CANALS" | 3 |
| "Navigable Rivers" | 2 |
| Navigation of Rivers, Improvement in | 4 |
| Need of Increased Transport | 14 |
| Netherton Tunnel | 23 |
| Net Receipts, Volume of Traffic, and Income on Railways and Canals | 70 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 67, 68 |
| Nimmo | 7 |
| North Western Railway Co. | 53 |
| Nottingham | 8, 26 |
| Nyne or Nen, the | 3 |
| OIL AND GAS ENGINES HAULAGE | 42 |
| Opposition to Railways | 10 |
| Ouse, the | 4, 18, 20, 23 |
| „ Navigation, the | 19 |
| Oxford | 7, 10 |
| PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ON CANALS | 11, 21, 27, 41, 48-50 52-53, 59, 63-64, 69 |
| „ Recognition of the Danger of Railway Control of Canals | 60 |
| „ Report on Canals | 11 |
| „ „ Railway Control of Canals | 52 |
| Peterborough | 3 |
| Pioneers of English Canals | 6, 7 |
| Planes, Inclined | 3, 36 |
| Popularity of Railways | 10 |
| Present Condition of English Canals | 13, 15 |
| "Present State of the Nation" | 9 |
| Preston Brook | 7, 51 |
| Priestly | 2 |
| Private Enterprise | 6, 25 |
| Progress of English Waterways | 3-7 |
| "Progress of Railways and Waterways" | 25, 54 |
| Pumping for Locks | 36 |
| "QUARTERLY REVIEW" | 3 |
| RAILWAY AND CANAL COMMISSIONERS | 59 |
| Railway and Canal Traffic Act | 59, 60 |
| „ Control of Canals, Parliamentary Reports on | 52, 69 |
| „ Freights & Manchester Ship Canal | 65 |
| „ Interest and Control | 15, 52, 59 |
| "Railway Mania," the | 10 |
| „ Monopoly, Result of | 11 |
| „ Owned Canals | 15 |
| „ Purchase of Canals, Compulsory | 10 |
| „ Rates and Fares Committee Report | 59 |
| „ Transport Cost | 60-66 |
| Railways and Canals in conjunction | 58 |
| Railways, Effect of Introduction | 10 |
| „ Opposition to | 10 |
| „ Popularity of | 10 |
| „ v. Waterways | 48, 49, 61, 64, 66 ​ |
| Ramsden, Sir John | 24, 25 |
| „ Canal | 24, 25 |
| Rapid Increase of England's Inland Transport | 72 |
| Regent's (late North Metropolitan) | 17, 18 |
| Rennie | 7 |
| Report of Conference of Society of Arts on Inland Navigation | 60, 62, 71 |
| Report on Railway Control of Canals | 59 |
| „ the Duke of Devonshire's Commission on Railway Working | 64 |
| Reservoirs | 23 |
| Result of Railway Monopoly | 11 |
| Rochdale | 51 |
| Roman Empire | 2, 3 |
| Runcorn | 7 |
| Rundle, Gen. | 55 |
| SALFORD | 40, 73 |
| St. Neots | 24 |
| Salt | 36, 38 |
| Saner, Mr | 26, 38, 35-36 |
| Select Committee, Report of | 11 |
| Severn, River | 4, 15, 18, 21-22 |
| „ Group | 15, 20 |
| „ Navigation | 20 |
| Shakespeare | 73 |
| Shares, Canal, 1792 | 6 |
| Sheffield | 19, 60 |
| „ and South Yorkshire Navigation | 19 |
| „ Canal | 19 |
| Ship Canal Act, 1885 | 17 |
| „„ First | 4 |
| Shropshire Union | 16, 50, 55 |
| Siemens and Halske | 43 |
| Smeaton | 7 |
| Smiles | 7 |
| Society of Arts | 55 |
| Speed on Canals | 48 |
| Staffordshire, North | 49-50 |
| „South | 36, 38, 49 |
| Stainforth & Keadby Canal, the | 19 |
| Standard Dimensions | 25-30, 37 |
| Statistical Society, Journal of | 63 |
| Steam-haulage | 39, 42 |
| Steam or horse-haulage | 42 |
| Stevenson | 3 |
| Stour, River | 4-5 |
| Stourbridge | 51 |
| Stourport | 20 |
| "Stroudwater," Canal, the | 5, 20-21, 51 |
| Structural Conditions | 23-27 |
| Suez Canal, the | 71 |
| Suffolk | 5 |
| Switzerland | 34 |
| TAFF VALE RAILWAY | 49 |
| Telford | 6 |
| Thames, River | 4, 15, 18-22, 45 |
| „ and Severn Canal | 20-21 |
| „ Conservancy Board | 21 |
| „ Group | 15, 17 |
| „ Navigation | 17-18, 21 |
| Through-routes | 15, 23, 50-61 |
| „ Tolls | 50 ​ |
| Thwaite-Cawley Electric-haulage | 46-47 |
| Tolls, Effect of Railway Control on | 53 |
| Tolls on Bricks | 53 |
| Toll-takers, Canal Companies as | 53-54 |
| Tolls, Through | 50 |
| Ton-mile rates : average traffic | 66 |
| Trade, Export, Britain's | 9 |
| Traffic Capacity of English Canals | 57-58 |
| "Transport by Railway and Canal" | 68, 70 |
| Transport on English Waterways, Cost of | 63 |
| Transport, Cost of Railway | 60 |
| „ „Water | 61 |
| „ Economy of Water | 69 |
| Trent, River | 2, 4, 8, 60 |
| Trent and Mersey | 8, 10, 16, 18, 24, 37 |
| „ Navigation | 19, 55 |
| Tunnels | 22, 23 |
| Tween, Charles | 45 |
| UNION CANAL | 37 |
| United States | 64, 67 |
| „ „American Society of Engineers, Proceedings of | 64 |
| „ „Buffalo | 64 |
| „ „Canal Traffic in | 68 |
| „ „Chicago | 61-62,64 |
| „ „Erie Canal | 58, 62 |
| „ „Erie Railroad Co., The | 58 |
| „ „Grain Traffic between Chicago and New York | 61 |
| „ „Haverford College, | 61 |
| „ Hudson, River | 62 |
| United States, Interstate Commerce Commission Report | 67 |
| „ „New York, | 61-62, 64 |
| „ „„State of, | 58, 63 |
| Utility of Water Transport | 1 |
| VARIATION of Freights on Through-Routes | 51 |
| WALKER, Thomas A | 12 |
| Warwick | 51, 53 |
| „ and N. Staffs | 50 |
| Wash, The | 15, 20 |
| „ Group, The | 20 |
| Water Transport, Cost of | 61 |
| „ „Economy of | 69-72 |
| „ „Utility of | 1 |
| "Waterways," Jeans | 7-9, 39, 51 |
| Waterways, Progress of English | 3 |
| „ v. Railways | 61, 64, 66 |
| Watt | 7 |
| Wear River, The | 5 |
| Weaver River, The | 5, 37 |
| „ Navigation, The | 16-17, 23-26, 36, 42, 58 |
| Trast, The | 17 |
| Welland, River | 4, 6 |
| Wells, Lionel B. | 14-15 |
| Weston Marsh Lock | 17 |
| „ Point | 17 |
| Wey, River | 4 |
| Williams, Sir E. Leader | 37 |
| Wilts | 50 |
| Witham, River | 3-4 |
| Wolverhampton | 7 |
| „ Locks | 51 |
| Worcester | 51 |
| Worsley | 7-8 |
| Wye, River | 4 |
| York | 19 |
| Yorkshire | 5 |