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Excerpt from Water Terminal and Transfer Facilities: Letter From the Secretary of War Transmitting With a Letter From the Chief of Engineers, Reports of an Investigation of the General Subject of Water Terminals
Second. Ocean transportation, coastwise: Here the draft of the earners is limited usually by the depth Of the smaller ports involved, but conditions indicate that transportation may, as a rule, be con ducted at less cost than by rail. The coastwise rout is usually no longer than the competing rail route, but it. Generally involves one or more extra transfers as compared with rail. 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.
