Excerpt from Cape Cod Canal: Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting Report of Proceedings to Date in Determining Value and Advisability of Purchase of the Cape Cod Canal, Connecting Buzzards Bay and Cape Cod Bay, Mass Under favorable conditions it is estimated that a tug and three coal barges can make the trip around Cape Cod in 42hours, as against 28 hours through the canal, a differ ence in the one-way passage of 14 hours. 'from the statement made by Capt. J. M. Cherry, superintendent floating equipment, Lehigh Valley Railroad, tows have made an average of 2 trips per month in the summer and 11; trips per month in the winter, making a total average of about 21 trips er annum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.