Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — Canals. [ARTICLE]

Canals.

.1. While the New World is busy with canal projects, from Cliagres to Choptank aud Choptank to Cape Cod, no less interest in this sort of engineering is felt in Europe. the lately revived undertakings is the old one for connecting the North'Sea and the Baltic. The first practical steps toward savering the Danish peninsula were taken just a century ago. The Elder empties in to the N orth Sea below Tonnibgen, aud the deepening of that strea'm in 1874 went far toward opening a waterway from Kiel, on the Baltic. During the past fifty years the project of a regular ship canal has from time to time been broached; and now Germany, having possessed herself of Holstein, is in a position to build it within her own domains. The canal, of course, would have military as well as eonimercial aims, as it would enable the Baltic and North ~ Sea squadrons of Germany to promptly reinforce each other.