The excerpt is from the history of cotton manufacture in great britain, by edward baines. a great number of streams . . furnish water-power adequate to turn many hundred mills: they afford the element of water, indispensable for scouring, bleaching, printing, dyeing, and other processes of manufacture: and when collected in their larger channels, or employed to feed canals, they supply a superior inland navigation, so important for the transit of raw materials and merchandise.
according to the excerpt, in what ways did water england’s industrial boom?
water supplied power and a means of transportation.
water people build hundreds of mills.
water people trade goods with nations overseas.
water enabled people to create raw materials.