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other bills for extending and amending sundry rivers, &c. makeforty-feven Acts of Parliament in that period relative to the inland navi-rgation of this country. It has therefore become necessary and incum-bent on us, to make a further Supplement to our History, of such un-dertakings; which, after considerable exertions of industry, aided bythe general liberality of the Gentlemen concerned in them, we are en-abled to lay before our readers with ver)' respectable accuracy; the wholehaving been made out, from the several plans and documents laid beforeParliament; and as no variation of any consequence, can take placewithout leave of Parliament, there appears no necessity to enlarge onthe accuracy or competency of such assistance. Our new arrangementalso, will be found pleasant and convenient.

It is worthy of observation, that the great sum of money engagedjn this kind of concern, within the last two years, is immense;the capitals allowed to be raised for the uses of these acts, exceeds5,300,00a 1 . a most enormous sum ! And yet, the more it is contem-plated the better it appears; one part, and that not the leastpleasing is, that the whole amount, without any exception, will beexpended within our own country, and among our own countrymen ;and by much the greater part circulated among the laborious and indus-trious poor: many of whom, must of necessity, be constantly engagedin maintaining and attending upon these various works, and their ex-tensive concerns. In another point of view, also, the prospect is plea-sing, for from so great a capital laid out within the country, great pro-fits must ultimately arise to our Artisans, and to our Merchants, and tothe whole of those Countries, through which these means of conveyancepass.

Inland navigation is now proved to be a nursery to our Navy ; thiswe pointed out in the Preface to the History, but were not then aware,the theory might so soon be verified by experiment: we cannot thinkthis instance of the general benefits arising from inland navigations,either trifling or unimportant j viewing as we do, the safety and pros-perity of our favoured Isle, with the ardour and anxiety of trueJBntons,