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arsenal and dock-yards at Brest and Rochefort, with all forts of storesand commodities from the Baltic, without hazarding a voyage by sea jwhereas they are now obliged to be brought from the Baltic down theEnglish channel to Brest, and through the straits of Gibraltar toToulon, at the utmost rilk of becoming the prize of our ships of warand privateers; or they must go north about, which is a long and dan-gerous voyage.

Since the canal of Languedoc has proved of such advantage to thetown of Cette and the adjacent country, other places have been inducedto copy the example. From Cette another canal has been cut, calledthe canal of Grave, which goes into the lake Mauguis, near to the cityof Montpellier; and another canal out of the said lake, to the town ofLunel, called the canal of Lunel.

There is another canal out of the bay of Languedoc, through twolakes, to the town of Beaucaire, on the river Rhone.

* There is also another canal out of this canal, which proceeds to thevillage of Guveral, into the river called the little Rhone.

There is another canal from the town of Tarafcon on the Rhoneto the town of Aries on the same river, and down into the lakewhich falls into the bay near the mouths of the Rhone. It is-calledthe canal of Boue.

Two other canals go out of this canal, one near the town of Aries,the other at the head of the aforesaid lake ; and the latter is called thecanal of Crapone, and goes into the river Durance near Mirandol.

There are three other canals out of this river, near to the ■ city ofAvignon; one is called the canal of Crillon, another the canal of Real,and the third the canal of Boisgelin.

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