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three to one, viz. the southern canal 60,coo 1. the northern ditto164,0001. besides the value of grounds to be purchased *.

* Dr. Anderson’s Report to the Lords of the Treasury is as follows :

The following is Mr. Watts’s survey and estimate of Loch Crinan and Loch Gilppassage:

By the Crinan and Loch Gilp passage, the total distance between high-water mark oneach fide the isthmus is six miles and one half; the greatest rife above high-water neap-tides is seventy-five feet.

The following is Mr. Watts’s survey and estimate by the Tarbet passage :

The expence of a canal seven feet deep is estimated at 34,8791. Ditto ten feet deep48,405 1.

By the Tarbet passage, the total distance between high-water mark on each side theisthmus is one mile ; the greatest perpendicular rife above high-water at neap-tides

is forty-sive feet. £.

The expence of a canal of seven feet deep is estimated at — 17,988

Ditto of a canal ten feet deep —. — — 23,884

Ditto of a thorough cut, without locks, of twelve feet deep at high-water 73,849

Ditto of ditto at fifteen feet deep - - 120,789

Mr. Watts’s survey and estimate of a canal with ten feet water, from Fort William to

Inverness.

The canal upon the Ness, eight miles, rife foi ty-five feet, takes up one hundred

and twenty-one acres of land-Expence - -

The canal upon the Oich, five miles, rife fifty-five feet, occupies one hundred

and one acres of land - - -

Greatest rife one hundred feet.

The canal on the summit, descending two miles, rife twenty-feet, occupies fifty-

nine acres one quarter of land - - -

The canal of Lochy, descending seven feet and a half, rise eighty feet, occupiesone hundred and seventy-two acres and a half of land — —

£•

34,656

37,699

28,286

63,389

£■ 164,030

'I he length is the fame as I have given before from Mr. Knox.

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