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Subject: [Leica] Re: Canal boats (OT)
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Tue Jul 10 19:12:20 2007
References: <200707102206.l6AM5WkQ031219@server1.waverley.reid.org> <B188E5D8-2FAE-493F-BF2D-2E9FC18C772B@optonline.net>

Larry, sounds like fascinating territory. You now have a mission to show us 
some pictures!
Cheers
Hoppy

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> Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG : #207 & #208
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>
>> Graham and Jerry, that is truly amazing. Jerry, you are saying that
>> the bridge is an aqueduct, part of the canal system, actually passing
>> over the natural water course?
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> View from the top:
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> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05260.htm
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> http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05261.htm
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> http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/posts/Cosgrove_01.html
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> http://www.geebeephoto.com/temp/posts/Cosgrove_col.html
>
> --Graham


I've heard it described as cruising in a moving hallway. The British  
canal boats are a bit more than six feet wide. If you stand in the  
middle of the boat and stretch out your arms, you can touch both  
sides. In our Erie canal, boats are a foot or two wider, say about  
eight feet. Incidentally the Erie Canal was responsible for  
developing New York City as a major port. The canal, stretching from  
the Buffalo area runs the length of New York State to the Hudson  
River. When completed in 1826 it permitted a direct water route from  
the Midwest to NYC. Passengers and agricultural produce could make  
the trip to New York in a bit more than a week. Overland the trip  
took twice as long and, for bulk cargos, was ten times more  
expensive. The current canal, now known as the New York Barge Canal,  
is a monumental piece of engineering, rivaling the Panama Canal. It  
has 52 locks, some with 40 foot lifts, and climbs over the small  
mountains in the middle of the state. Since the advent of rail, barge  
traffic has dropped off and the canal is being transformed into a 350  
mile long recreational park.

To put a photographic perspective on all this meandering, the Erie  
Canal passes through miles of some of the prettiest and most bucolic  
landscape in the USA. Side canals head to the Fingerlakes. glacially  
carved crystal clear lakes 40 miles long and 4 miles wide with one of  
the best wine grape growing areas in the US nestled between. If you  
like GeeBee's photos of the English countryside, you will find it all  
here (except for the churches).

Larry Z


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Replies: Reply from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] Re: Canal boats (OT))
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