Maps, Reports, Estimates, &c., Relative to Improvements of the Navigation of the River St. Lawrence; and a Proposed Canal Connecting the River St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain: A Machine Readable edition : Report of Messrs. Maillefert and Raaslof, Civil Engineers, upon the Examination and Survey of the River St. Lawrence, from Prescott to the head of the Lachine Canal, and certain experimental blasting operations made during the summer of 1854.

Report of Messrs. Maillefert and Raaslof, Civil Engineers, upon the Examination and Survey of the River St. Lawrence, from Prescott to the head of the Lachine Canal, and certain experimental blasting operations made during the summer of 1854.

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	Title Page
	Table of Contents
	Maps Accompanying this Report
	Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Executive Council, dated 18th October, 1854, approved by His Excellency the Governor General, in Council, on the same day.
	Instructions for J. B. Jarvis, Esquire, Civil Engineer, on the subject of a Canal between the River St. Lawrence and Lake Champlain.
	STATEMENT shewing the Cost of a Survey for a Canal to connect the River St. Lawrence with Lake Champlain.
	Report of Edward H. Tracy, Esquire, Civil Engineer.
	Report of John B. Jarvis, Esquire, Civil Engineer.
	Report of Messrs. Maillefert and Raaslof, Civil Engineers, upon the Examination and Survey of the River St. Lawrence, from Prescott to the head of the Lachine Canal, and certain experimental blasting operations made during the summer of 1854.
	[Introduction]
	1. Surveying Operations.
	2. The Width and Depth of the Channel.
	3. The Low Summer Water
	4. The Experimental Blasting Operations.
	5. The Estimates of Cost.
	RECAPITULATION
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 9 Sep. 1853]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Commissioners of Public Works, 26 Oct. 1853]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 20 May 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 5 May 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Killaly, 5 Jun 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 6 Jun 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 14 Jun 1854]
	[Raasloff to Killaly, 14 Jun 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Commissioners of Public Works, 4 Jun 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Commissioners of Public Works, 27 Jun 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 29 Jun 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 4 Aug 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 25 Aug 1854]
	[List of Instruments from Public Works, 29 Aug 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 29 Aug 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 25 Aug 1854]
	[Wulff, Elliott, Bell, Blenham to Begly, 25 Aug 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 2 Sep 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 66 Sep 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 6 Nov 1854]
	[Maillefert & Raasloff to Begly, 30 Nov 1854]
	[Begly to Maillefert & Raasloff, 30 Jun 1853]
	[Begly to Maillefert & Raasloff, 5 Sep 1853]
	[Begly to Maillefert & Raasloff, 29 Sep 1853]
	[Killaly to Raasloff, 20 Jun 1854]
	[Begly to Maillefert & Raasloff, 15 Sep 1854]
	[Begly to Maillefert & Raasloff, 20 Nov 1854]
	[Begly to Maillefert & Raasloff, 5 Dec 1854]
	Tender for Improving the Rapids of the St. Lawrence.
	No. 1. Estimate of the Cost of Surveying "Coteau," "Cascades," and "Lachine Rapids," &c.
	[Articles of Agreement, Maillefert & Raasloff and Crown, 18 Oct 1853]
	[Articles of Agreement, Maillefert & Raasloff and Crown, 9 Dec 1854]
	SCHEDULE A. List of Boats and other material purchased by the undersigned Maillefert & Raaslof, for use in their Exploration of the Rapids of the River St. Lawrence.
	[Articles of Agreement, Maillefert & Raasloff and Crown, 9 Sep 1854]
	SCHEDULE A. List of Boats and other materials purchased by the undersigned, for use in their Exploration of the Rapids of the River St. Lawrence.
	Table A.

SCHEDULE A.
List of Boats and other material purchased by the undersigned Maillefert & Raaslof, for use in their Exploration of the Rapids of the River St. Lawrence.

One wooden scow, 35 feet long, 10 feet beam, 4 feet depth of hold, built at St. Timothy, of tamarac, decked all over, with one rudder and tiller, and salmontail, 4 oars, &c. One wooden boat, 38 feet long, 8 feet beam, with 2 sails, 2 masts, 2 jibbooms, 2 oars, 1 rudder and tiller, built at New Haven, Connecticut.

One wooden boat, 22 feet long, flat-bottomed, with 4 oars, built of pine, at Coteau Landing.

One wooden boat, 16 feet long, flat-bottomed, with 2 oars, built of pine, at Coteau Landing.

One wooden boat, 20 feet long, flat-bottomed, with 2 oars, built of pine, at Coteau Landing.

One Francis' metallic life-boat, 16 feet long, with water-tight compartments, and 4 oars, built at New York.

One mast for iron barge, with stays.

One hundred fathoms 5/8 inch chain, B.B. from H. 7, Wood & Co., Liverpool, entirely new.

The foregoing is the schedule and statement referred to in foregoing bill of sale between Messrs. Maillefert & Rassloff and the Commissioners of Public Works, Quebec.

(Signed,) MAILLEFERT & RAASLOFF,
J. CHABOT,
Chief Commissioner of Public Works,
THOMAS A. BEGLY,
Secretary of Public Works.
(Witnesses.)
(Signed,) JAMES W. HARPER,
J. Guy.

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SCHEDULE A. List of Boats and other material purchased by the undersigned Maillefert & Raaslof, for use in their Exploration of the Rapids of the River St. Lawrence.

SCHEDULE A.
List of Boats and other material purchased by the undersigned Maillefert & Raaslof, for use in their Exploration of the Rapids of the River St. Lawrence.