Athletics and manly sport (1890) (14776329995)

Identifier: athleticsmanlysp00orei (find matches)

Title: Athletics and manly sport

Year: 1890 (1890s)

Authors: O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890

Subjects: Boxing Games Canoes and canoeing

Publisher: Boston, Pilot publishing company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ry shall not be those of the new. The wealththat was based on slavery was a bubble, and thepride that went Avith it was a poison for the veryearth. Gods hand is heavy when the scales cometo be balanced. Expiation and atonement arealways bitter, however they may be sweetened bythe spirit of renunciation. We intended to return to Norfolk by the Chesa-peake & Albemarle Canal, the flourishing water-way, croAvded with ships, which ought to be onlya young rival of the Dismal Swamp Canal, for thelatter had all the natural advantages, and also con-trolled the field. But the Chesapeake & Albemarle Company hadan inferior route, plus intelligence, and the conse-quence is that it is crowded with commerce, whilethe Dismal Swamp Canal is traversed by one poorlittle steamer, the Thomas Newton^ that looks likethe working model of Fultons first steamship. There was a storm raging along the coast, andwe could not face bad weather outside in ourcanoes to get to the other canal, so we shipped our

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CANOEING IN THE DISMAL SWAMP. 451 effects on the Thomas Newton to return on ourtracks along the whole course of the DismalSwamp Canal. The Dismal Swamp could be drained and re-claimed, and a property of very large value wouldbe added to the States of Virginia and NorthCarolina. While in process of reclamation, andperhaps afterward, the present canals could be re-tained to get out the timber, which is enormouslyvaluable; but the locks making the central orhigher level could be abolished. This wouldlower the canal and the lake about seven feet. Itwould be comparatively inexpensive to dredge thislevel down to the outer levels. A fall of seven feet in the lake would reduce itperhaps half a mile, leaving all round it a beachof white sand of exquisite fineness. This wouldat once purify it from the water snakes that makeits banks hideous. The surrounding swamp would drain into thelake, the Feeder and the canals, leaving their banksdry. A road could easily be made on one side,and a clearing o

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