NEW CANAL IN EUROPE.
The Golos says that the project for connecting the Ducistcr and the Vistula by means of a canal, thus bringing the Baltic and the Black Sea into direct communication with each other, first mooted in the eighteenth century, is beginning to assume a practical shape, and has been discussed at some length in the Galician Diet. Count Stadwicke, one of the leading members, dwelt at great length upon the advantages which would accrue from the execution of this work, especially with regard to the development of trade, between Europe and Central Asia. At present (lie commercial traffic between Odessa and Constantinople on the one hand and the countries upon the Atlantic seaboard is represented by a total of about eight million tons annually, the port of Odessa alone despatching and receiving from England about three million tons. The distance between Odessa and London by sea is about 4,250 miles, and between Odessa and Dantzio about 4,0G0 ; while the distance between the two latter places as the crow flies is only 940 miles. A canal connecting the Ducistcr and the Vistula would, therefore, effect an immense saving in distance ami time; ami the Golos states that a company of French engineers arc ready to make one for £8,000,000 in six years.
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Patea Mail, 26 October 1880, Page 3
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214NEW CANAL IN EUROPE. Patea Mail, 26 October 1880, Page 3
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