Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America

ÆSCHYLUS affords Albany Alleghany Mountains AMEN CORNER American Atlantic Ocean average beams boats boilers Boston bridge British Buffalo built Captain Galton carriages centre coast connected construction cost course deck depth of water distance eastern elevated employed engines erected Erie Canal extends feet in breadth feet in length feet of water five feet flows formed gallons Gulf of Mexico harbour height Hudson inches in diameter inclined planes iron Lake Erie Lake Michigan Lake Ontario land lighthouses Long Island Sound means measures miles in breadth miles in length Mississippi navigation North America Ohio Orleans paddle-wheels passengers Philadelphia pier Plate ports produce quays Quebec Railroad rails railway renders reservoirs rise of tide road roadway Sackett's Harbour shores side situate St Lawrence steam steamboats steamers stone surface timber tion town trade United upwards vessels western wheels whole wood wooden York