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Excerpt from Report on the North Sea Canal of Holland: And on the Improvement of Navigation From Rotterdam to the Sea; To the Chief of Engineers, United States Army Having been engaged, with the sanction of the War Department, during the past summer in examining personally, on behalf of the Tehuantepec Railway and Canal Company, some of the principal artificial waterways of Europe, I have, under the authorization of the Chief of Engineers, prepared for the information of the Engineer Department the following account of the remarkable works of modern engineering presented by the North Sea Canal and the navigation improvement from the port of Rotterdam to the sea. It is due to Mr. Simon Stevens, president of the company just mentioned, at whose expense my investigations were made, and documents and drawings procured, to state that this disposition of them is made with his cordial approval. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.