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rivers will afford safe riding for the ships, renderthe maritime parts of the town extremely pleasant,and facilitate the passage of boats and barges upthe river towards Keynsham and Bath. Theobjections of stench and infection are utterlynugatory. The rivers of Bath, Exeter, and manyother places, are dammed up without offence or com-plaint, which cannot be occasioned here, as the riv-er will be ever in motion. To all other advantageswill be added a communication between Cliftonand Ashton parishes, and the counties of Somersetand Glocester.

On the banks of both rivers are several dock-yards, and dry and floating docks for building andrepairing the ships. There are two or three by theFroom, besides the various docks at Wapping bythe Avon, where is also a spacious wet-dock withdouble gates, lately built to keep ships constantlyafloat. Below these, beyond Limekiln-dock, to-wards the Hot-wells, is a large floating-dock, thatwill contain forty sail of stout ships deeply laden,and which in January, one thousand seven hundredand sixty-nine, received a sixty-four gun-ship withease through its gates. Here are also other docks :