Grand Canal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A channel in Venice, Italy. It forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.

   • The Buildings are generally lofty and beautiful eſpecially on the Grand Canal, over which the Bridge called Rialto exceeds all the reſt, is built of white Marble, and conſiſts of one Arch 95 foot long and 24 high.
2. 2

   A channel in China.

   • The Grand Canal, in Chinese Yun-ho, or ‘the Transit river,’ is of much more importance to the inland trade than either of the two great rivers of China.
   • Couriers rode on donkeys or mules and usually covered part of the distance—between Yangchow and Chinkiang, and when the wind was favorable also between Yangchow and Ch’ing-chiang-p’u—by boat on the Grand Canal.

The neighborhood