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consequently executed by the public. In this manner Ireland, France,Denmark, Sweden, and the American States, are at present carrying onvery extensive inland navigations. England, whose revenue far exceedsthat of Ireland, Denmark, and America united, leaves these great na-tional objects to the local views of traders and speculators who clog thenational commerce with excessive tonnage, which they demand to reim-burse them for the money they have laid out, and for annual repairs.Thus the canals in England, works which should be conducted uponthe boldest plans, are stinted in every particular, and executed imper-fectly ; of which various instances might be produced, though now tonlate for any effectual remedy.

Description of the intended Inland Navigation between Inverness and

Fort-William.

A THIRD northern navigation, of very considerable utility,also claims the attention of the public. Between the Sound of Mull onthe west, and the Moray Firth on the east side of the kingdom, there is alevel or chasm composed of land and water, which separates the moun-tains of the middle division from .those of the north so completely that,with the assistance of art, ships might pass between them from sea tosea.

On the west side of this extensive valley is the Linnke Loch, pene-trating from the Sound of Mull twenty-four miles north-east, and socapacious that ships of the line have been moored as high as Inverlochy,now known by the name of Fort-William, or Maryburgh. This sinesalt-water lake communicates with Loch Crinan, Loch Leven, and LochEil, all of which are navigable for vessels of burthen, to which they afforda safe retreat when the violent gusts of wind render the Linnke naviga-tion dangerous.

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