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A Obeat Ebtbbpbisb—Float.so Vbssbls Aboubo Niaoaba Falls.—Horace H. Day, Esq., of New Tork, laid before the Transpor tation Committee of the Board of Trade, on the 26th instant, his plan for a ship canal, ! with double inclined planes, the vessel always floating in water around the Falls of Niagara, whereby it is possible to take a ship of the largest tonnage adapted to the lake trade, and in half an honr pass it on the other side of the