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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal . (search)
Historical Sketch of the old Middlesex canal. By Herbert Pierce Yeaton.
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the canal began at Middlesex Village, on the Merrimac river in the town of Chelmsford, and was lifted through a connected flight of three locks, passing under the main street over an aqueduct across the brook-near which are some quaint ol diameter, and shed at one end with a long iron point), completed the propelling outfit.
The crew consisted of a skipper and two bowmen.
In going down the Merrimac river the scull oars were used, and when there was a fair wind a sail was hoisted.
In going down the river, the bowmen took positions close to either side of the b ery small structure, and in very good repair, and is surrounded by traces of the enterprise that called it into being.
(A few rods away to the north runs the Merrimac river, skirted by the Lowell & Nashua railroad—now a part of the Boston & Maine.
The latter stands like a sentry, as it were, forbidding the corpse of the old cana