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[Teichman]

 in 1804,--the first canal in the United States opened for the
transportation of passengers and merchandise. For forty years it was the
outlet of the whole Merrimack valley north of Pawtucket Falls. The first
boat voyage from Boston, by the Middlesex Canal and the Merrimack River,
to Concord, New Hampshire, was made in 1814; the first steamboat from
Boston reached Concord in 1819. The competition of the Middlesex Canal
ruined the Pawtucket Canal, as it in turn, in after years, was ruined by
the Boston and Lowell Railroad. Navigation finally ceased on its waters
in 1853, since which date its channel has been filling up and its banks
ha
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