From Puget they must have a railway to Duluth.

On the Great Lakes, Storri would have a line of steamships.
"Only, we will improve upon those lakes!" cried Storri.

"It was that to carry me to Ottawa." Then Storri unrolled maps and reports from Canadian engineers which vouched the plausibility of a ship canal from a deep-water point on that eastern arm of Lake Huron called Georgian Bay to Toronto on Lake Ontario.
"It shall be two hundred feet wide," explained Storri, "and thirty feet deep.

The distance is less than one hundred miles, and the fall less than one hundred feet.

To dig it will be child's play; you may read the reports of the engineers; they show how advantage may be had of a Lake Simcoe, and of a little river.