Letter From the Secretary of War, Transmitting Topographical Reports, Made With a View to Ascertain the Practicability of Uniting the Waters of Illinois River, With Those of Lake Michigan. December 28, 1819 ..
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To render the Des Planes and Illinois navigable for small boats and flats requiring but a small draught of water, nothing more is necessary than the construction of sluices, in a few places where there are ripples of a sufficient width to admit the boats to pass through them. This may be effected by clearing away the loose stones from the bottom, and forming banks riveted with stone two or three feet high, on each side of the sluice. Thus, a water com- munication between the Illinois and lake M...ichigan may be kept open at all times sufficient to answer all the purposes for which a canal will be wanted, for many years to come. A canal uniting the St. Joseph of the lake with the Illinois, by way of the Kankakee, may be con- structed also in a similar manner, and with great facility, except that the distance by this route is considerably greater.
There are various other places where water communications may be opened in this quarter, by means of canals, to great advantage, of which the following are but a small proportion, viz.
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To render the Des Planes and Illinois navigable for small boats and flats requiring but a small draught of water, nothing more is necessary than the construction of sluices, in a few places where there are ripples of a sufficient width to admit the boats to pass through them. This may be effected by clearing away the loose stones from the bottom, and forming banks riveted with stone two or three feet high, on each side of the sluice. Thus, a water com- munication between the Illinois and lake M...ichigan may be kept open at all times sufficient to answer all the purposes for which a canal will be wanted, for many years to come. A canal uniting the St. Joseph of the lake with the Illinois, by way of the Kankakee, may be con- structed also in a similar manner, and with great facility, except that the distance by this route is considerably greater.
There are various other places where water communications may be opened in this quarter, by means of canals, to great advantage, of which the following are but a small proportion, viz.
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