1From Benjamin Franklin to John Mitchell, 29 April 1749 (Franklin Papers)
And as when a long Canal fill’d with still Water, is opened at one...
2From Benjamin Franklin to John Perkins, 4 February 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...the End it began to appear like a hollow Canal, only black in the Borders but white in...
3From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, September 1753 (Franklin Papers)
...it may be well enough to provide a larger Canal to guide that impetuous Blast, than we imagine...
4Notes on the Navigation of the Potomac River above the Great Falls, July–August 1754 (Washington Papers)
...by an ambitious and expensive series of locks and canals that were opened in Feb. 1802 by the...
5[January 1760] (Washington Papers)
...operator of a series of mills, ironworks, and canals, had moved in 1755 to a site on...
6[Diary entry: 8 January 1760] (Washington Papers)
...operator of a series of mills, ironworks, and canals, had moved in 1755 to a site on...
7[May 1760] (Washington Papers)
...it may be taken out of the River into a Canal and a considerable Fall obtained—& ⟨then⟩ a Run...
8[Diary entry: 9 May 1760] (Washington Papers)
...it may be taken out of the River into a Canal and a considerable Fall obtained—& ⟨then⟩ a Run...
9From Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Small, 12 May 1760 (Franklin Papers)
...by a familiar instance or two. Suppose a long canal of water stopp’d at the end by a...
10[May 1760] (Adams Papers)
...that draws Water from the Thames, into the Canals under the City of London, and that...