Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries

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J. Stephen Jeans wrote this 1890 book on waterways, and its title page promises a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan and other canals. The introduction says it would be difficult to name a subject of more importance to a country's material interests than adequate means of transport, and an illustration shows a cutting on the Birmingham Canal.

One passage gives figures for the Baltic Ship Canal, from Holtenau near Kiel to the Elbe near Brunsbütte: a length of 75 to 80 kilometres, 60 metres wide at the surface, 8 and a half metres deep, with an estimated cost of 156 million marks. Another list sets out proposals for English canals, including a link between Birmingham and the Trent and the improvement of the Wiltshire and Berkshire canal, and goes on to the Forth and Clyde Canal.

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J. Stephen Jeans

J. Stephen Jeans combined Scottish journalist and author whose writing focused strongly on industry, civic life, and prominent figures in western Scotland. He edited the Glasgow Evening Star, and essays first prepared for newspaper readers supplied the foundation for Western Worthies.