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Canal Companies as Carriers 53-55
as Toll-takers 53-54
Groups, English 15
Improvements, Continental, 27-34
Lock, the 3, 35
Shares, 1792 6
Ship, First 4
Standard, English proposed, 26
Canal Transport 24
Canal v. Railway 48, 49
Canals, Advantages of 55
"Canals and Inland Navigation," 55
Canals and Railways in conjunction 58
"Canals and their Improvements," 36, 38
Canals, Compulsory Purchase by by Railway Cos. of 10
Disadvantages and Defects of 56
Early 2
English 2-7
European 3-4
English, Present Condition of 13
History of 2-9
Introduction into England 2
Europe 2
Railway Owned 15
17th Century 4
18th Century 4
Speed on 48
Traffic Capacity of English 57, 58
Capital, Economy of 70
Carriers, Canal Cos. as 53-55
Carrying Load 64
Cessation of Construction 11
Chain and Wire Rope Haulage 42
Changes of Level 34-39
Cheap Freights and Dimensions 26
Cheshire 5, 68
Chesterfield 7
China 2
Classification of English Canals 15-23
Clegram, Mr 39
Colne, The River 4
Commercial Pre-eminence, England's 73
Compulsory Railway Purchase of Canals 10
Conder, E. R. 11, 69
Conference on Inland Navigation of 1895 69
Congress on Inland Navigation, International, Fourth 35, 37
Connection of Birmingham with the Sea 21-22
Construction, Cessation of 11
Continental Improvements 27-34
Control of Canals by Railway Companies', Parliamentary Report on 59
Cost and Freight Rates 60-69
of Haulage 39-42, 46, 47
of Railway Transport 60-67
of Water Transport 61-63
Coventry Canal 6, 7, 51
and Grand Trunk Canal 6