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Several other rules and orders were also made, which it is not neces-sary particularly to enumerate.

The course of this canal is from the city of Dublin over the riversLittle Mouell and the Great Mouell, and then across the river Liffy, byDowingo and the Isle of Allen into the bog of Allen, and into the riverMaiden at Tullimore, which goes into the Brusna river, and sails intothe river Shannon near Moys-town. A canal is cut out of the grandcanal in the middle of the bog of Allen into the river Boyne at Eden-derry, and another near Clonbullock, into the river Barrow to Mone-steraven, and into another branch of the fame river at Portarlington janother cut is also made To Naastown, and a fourth to Johnstown. Se-veral more cuts, equally useful, are in contemplation, the navigationbeing far from complete. The whole length of the cut from Dublin tothe Shannon is sixty-one miles and a half.

I have before observed, that the expence of carrying the canal throughthe bog of Allen, to the year 1770, when a stop was put to it till fur-ther and more accurate surveys should be taken, was 77,000 1 . Newsurveys have been since made, and other engineers appointed ; but not-withstanding the vast quantity of money laid out, or rather squanderedaway upon it, to the amount of upwards of 300,000k it still remainsunfinished; and a very intelligent gentleman, who travelled throughIreland from motives of pleasure and curiosity, assured me, in August1790, upon his arrival in England, that he had the most authentic in-formation, that this grand canal, with all its faults and blunders, has al-ready cost above half a million of money, yet was still far from beingcompleted ; and is in fact what may be called a mere job.

I shall conclude what I have to fay on the canals In Ireland, with anextract from a celebrated performance * on the present state of Ireland,which comes down to the year 1780.

* A Tour through Ireland, by A. Young, Esq. F. R. S.

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