Googling it brings up a pretty interesting (and accessible) journal article on this subject by one Peter C. Hains, apparently the guy who "laid out the plans" f

Googling it brings up a pretty interesting (and accessible) journal article on this subject by one Peter C. Hains, apparently the guy who "laid out the plans" for the canal: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25105376 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25105376