AN HISTORICAL REVIEW OF

WATERWAYS AND

CANAL CONSTRUCTION

IN NEW YORK STATE

BY

HENRY WAYLAND HILL, LL. D.

Commerce and industry are the best mines of a nation.

-WASHINGTON.

Commerce is the greatest combiner of all the activities in the world.
-CARL RITTER.

BUFFALO, NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE

BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1908

Copyright, 1908, by HENRY W. HILL.

All rights reserved.