Coal Boats to Tidewater Author:Manville B. Wakefield The Story of the Delaware & Hudson Canal. — The Delaware and Hudson Canal skirted ghostly swamps, crossed stone arch bridges and suspension aqueducts, wound along the base of towering cliffs and clung to the edge of narrow defiles. It followed a route that challenged the engineering genius of its day. This book is a study in depth of regions cl... more »arified by more than thirty maps and over two hundred photographs.« less