A HUGE CANAL.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 42, 17 August 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

A HUGE CANAL.

Particulars have recently been discussed of another huge waterway which is on the taph, and which quite puts into the shade the Manohester Ship Canal, the North German Canal to the Baltic, or even the deepening of the Seine. The scheme which the Russians are bringing forward is that of connecting the Crimean ports of the Black Sea with the Baltic ports by means of a canal about 1000 miles in length, and at an estimated cost of about £20,000,000-though, in such colossal undertakings, the estimates have a knack of getting very far out of it. However, it is stated that there do not seem to be any great technical difficulties in the way of this projected canal from the Crimea to the Baltic. The starting-place would be the port of Riga, and the waterway would follow the Dwina, and, further on, the Beresina and the Dnieper, at last entering the Black Sea at Oherson. The depth of the waterway is to be 30/ 1., and the width 230 ft., whilst it is proposed to conneot the towns in the neighbourhood by means of smaller feeding canals. With a speed of six knots vessels would pass through the canal in the course of six days, which, it is pointed out, is an enormous saving on the sea journey between the Baltic and tho Black Sea and other Mediterranean ports, not to mention the probable great saving in cost of transport aa compared with the overland route. The great waterway ia to be electrically lighted. Well, we shall see.— Fall Mall Gazette.