One of the numerous commercial canals in Northern France in the Chólons-sur-Marne district. The rows of trees along the bank made it a marine higway of beauty as well as usefulness. Canals of this sort make freight traffic very cheap.
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Holland, land of water, is a strange place, but the strangest thing seen so far, is their auction rooms. A double platform, with a canal between, contains the buyers on one side, and the auctioneer on the other. Boatloads of produce are drawn...
Early bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; scene shows excavation for widening the canal and building a newer bridge. Building in background may be Buck Tavern.
