Walter Hawkwood
RI Curator
Thanks for sharing your work.
Glad to be of help. BTW, canal systems were actually quite important in the timeframe you've described - in the latter half of XVIII century, they were basically proto-railroads, carrying vast amounts of cargo in the early years of the industrial revolution. Though I guess this was more of an Old World thing (I don't know if that was the case or not in the Americas).