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Notes relating to the Canal
Hauling 7 Transpots
Mass
[illegible] from [illegible] Anne
7 (copper Societie)
West New 19, 1884
Boat drawn by one horse
boat can go 16 & 30 tons
Freight boats 2 1/2 miles
An hour
Passenger boats 4 miles
Tace 110 ga a dollar a mile
Per Chm
Boston to Lowell 15 hours
Booth
12 hours
Usual rates 1 to 2 dollars per
Ton Boston to Lowell 27 miles
To Rocks & Acquidicks
50 bales
Dance Wobled and by
Parker the Timber come
Lake Winnipesaukee, which
was thought to be one of the
Two thousand 5 million feet