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current impinges more strongly against the shore. It was hoped by the additional flow of water thus secured, and by the use of dredging-machines, The following correspondence contains the only suggestion made by General Halleck to Grant during this portion of the Vicksburg campaign: February 18. Cannot dredge-boats be used with advantage in the canal? There are four lying idle at Louisville, belonging to Barton, Robinson & Co., contractors. H. W. Halleck, General-in-chief. February 17. We have one dredging-machine here, and another ordered. More than two could not be advantageously used. U. S. Grant, Major-General. to widen and deepen the main canal. The design was, to allow a passage for vessels with a breadth of beam of sixty feet, and a draught of eight or nine. The troops who were engaged for two months on the canal, were encamped immediately on its west bank, and protected from possible inundation by a levee; but the continued rise in the river made a lar