The Kiel Canal is sixty miles long, and it cost about £8,000,000. In time of war itAvill.be. closed to outside nations, but to-day merchant vessels ran pass to and fro through it. This caual is wider and deeper than most. sh : p e»fliils: : It is 70ft broad at the bottom, ai»d cf 30ft draught. It is built as a rea-level ranal. Awnit 50,000 Teesels pass through the Kiel Canal every year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11116, 2 November 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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