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double carriage ; and coals, and other heavy articles, would have beenreturned nearly as cheap as the fame are fold in London.

Hay, straw, coals, brick, stone, chalk, lime, but more particularlytimber, would have been capital articles of traffic on this canal.

The number of horses would be diminished, in proportion as thequantity of those heavy goods brought by water should be increased ; sothat the saving of provender would be no inconsiderable object.

The conveyance of passengers by water, in vessels properly furnished,from one end of the canal to the other, at the small fare of three-pence,would not only have been of great convenience to passengers in general,but more particularly to those who might be inclined to collect and bringto market the small articles of poultry, butter, eggs, &c. A large reservoirof water would always have been ready for extinguishing fires in everypart in the city. By means of channels of communication, the filth ofthe city might all have been carried off from the common sewers, attimes when the abundance of rain might make water plenty. These,and many other advantages, would have accrued to the city of Londonfrom the completion of this plan.

To the proprietors of land, and to the inhabitants at a distance, theadvantages would have been proportionably great. Fields would havebeen converted into gardens, and wastes into fertile fields, by means ofthe plentiful supply of manure, and the penury of the poor country la-bourers relieved by the profusion of the city.

This project, however, being opposed by certain individuals in thehouse of commons, who conceived it to be contrary to their interest,was rejected, and has since lain dormant.

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