Excerpt from Report on Transportation Business in the United States at the Eleventh Census; 1890, Vol. 2: Transportation by Water The statistics of the accompanying report on transportation are grouped under the following divisions 1. Atlantic coast and Gulf of Mexico. 2. Pacific coast. 3. Great Lakes. 4. Rivers of the Mississippi valley. 5. Canals and canalized rivers. Following these divisions of water transportation, the statistics of express companies for both land and water are given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.