Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1895 — The Greatest Canal. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Canal.

The largest canal in the world is contemplated by the Russians. This is to be a continuous waterw’ay of 1,000 miles, connecting the Baltic with the Black Sea, and the cost would only be a little item of £20,000.000. It would start from the port of Riga, in the Baltic, and use the rivers Dwina, Beresina and Dnieper on its route, entering the Black Sea at the Crimean port of Cherson. It is a project by which a merchant ship going at only six knots an hour would do the whole journey in a week, at a tremendous saving of time and fuel. In a £at country like Russia there seems no real difficulty in the enterprise, except the eternal want of roubles, from which the government suffers.