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228 "AROUND THE LAKHS. TABLE SHOWING LENGTH, NUMBER AND DIMENSIONS OF LOCKS, ETC., OF CANALS CONNECTING WITH THE GREAT LAKES. No. Namb of Canal. Terminal Points. Ohio_________________________Cleveland-Portsmouth Miami and Erie Erie_______________ Oswego -__.....------------------ Illinois and Michigan______ Sturgeon Bay________________ Sault Ste. Marie_____________ Lachine-------------------------------- Beauharnois------------------------- 10 Cornwall------------------------------ ii Williamsburg (Farran's Ft, Rapide Plat and Galop's canals). Welland-------------------------------- St. Ours Lock_______________ Chambly______......._____ St. Anne's Lock_____________ Carillon-------------------------------- Grenville____________________ '4 L5 16 17 18 Rideau______......-------------: Ottawa City—Kingston- Toledo—Cincinnati Buffalo—Albany-------- Oswego—Syracuse__________ Chicago—Mississippi River-Lake Michigan—Creen Bay-Lake Huron—Lake Superior.. Montreal—Lachine-------- Melocheville—Valleyfield Cornwall—Dickinson's Landing Farran's Point- Galop's Rapids Port Dalhousie-St. Ours________ Chambly Basin- Port Colborne Locks. Number. Length. St. Johns. 152 105 no 29 26 I 9 1 2 5 47 Feet. no no 97-5 515 270 200 200 200 270 200 118 200 200 200 134 Width. Depth. Feet. 40 40 18 18 17-5 45 45 45 45 45 45 23-5 45 45 45 33 *To La Salic, 111., locks will pass vessels of 75 feet beam, 320 feet length and 6 feet draft. Feet. 4 4 7 7 5 16 14 9 9 9 14 7 7 9 9 9 Lockage. Feet. 655 155 Total length of canal. Height of bridges. 18 45 82.5 48 29.63 326-75 5 74 2 12.5 45-75 I 282.25 rise t 164 fall Stat.miles. 309 250 352-T8 48 1-25 8-75 n.25 "•5 12.38 26.75 8 0.125 0.75 5-75 126.25 Feet. Canal Toll. 10.5 Free 2>4c. per reg'd ton. The above information was obtained from the following sources: 1 and 2. Fifty-first annual report of board of public works, Ohio, if. pages 26 and 27. 3 and 4. New York state engineer's report, 1890, page 9. 5. Data received from Capt. Marshall, U. S. engineer office, Chicago. 6. Lake survey chart No. 35. [page 74- 7. Annual report, 1892, of department railwaj'S and canals, Canada, 8 to 18. "Canals and Irrigation in Foreign Countries," 1891, page 52.