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terior to the tide, can afford any correct illustration as to the point
of termination, on tide, which should be given to this canal. In
selecting instances, for this purpose, I shall confine myself to those
of Great Britain, and of tins country, as being best known, and
amply sufficient for all the purposes to which I deem it proper to
pray in aid such examples.

The object of the Aberdeen Canal, which is nineteen miles in
length, was the exportation of granite stone, from the famous
quarries on the banks of the Biver Don; and for that purpose the
canal has been made to terminate in the port of Aberdeen. The
Glenkin Canal was intended to facilitate the exportation of coal,
lime, iron ore and other minerals; and it terminates in the tide-way
of the port of Kirkcudbright. The Glamorganshire Canal is
twenty-five miles long; and its objects are the exportation of the
produce of the immense iron, coal and lime works in the interior.
It terminates in the River Severn near Cardiff, where there is a
floating dock sixteen feet deep, in which a great number of ships
of three hundred tons burthen can be constantly afloat, and load
or unload, either at the spacious warehouses on its banks, or from or
to the boats belonging to the canal. The Swansea Canal, having
a similar object, has a similarly advantageous termination and
meeting with the marine navigation.

The Stroudwater Canal, and the Thames and Severn Canals
leading through various others over the interior and across Eng-
land, are connected with the ship canal leading into the port of
Gloucester. The Kennet and Avon Canal, which is stretched
across England to London, terminates in the great ship basin at
Bristol. The Chester Canal proceeds from the very port to form
connexions with the canals of the interior. The Mercy and Irwill
navigation, * as it is called, has for its appendage the fa-
161 mous Wet Docks of Liverpool. This navigation is formed
by inclosing and straightening a portion of the river itself for a
considerable distance above Liverpool, like a proper canal, and is
a still water navigation. The Bridgewater and several other of
the principal canals, from the interior, are connected with this
canal. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes several of the prin-
cipal manufacturing towns, and with others crosses England en-
tirely in several directions. This canal terminates at Liverpool,
and the canal boats deliver their cargoes of coal there, on a steep
hill-side, so that it slides down into a yard on the the water side of
the harbor. Rees' Cyclo. Art. Canal.

The Lancaster Canal is seventy-five miles in length, and
the greater portion of its northern part skirts along near the
sea-coast. Its objects are the interchange of the lime-stone of
the northern parts for the coal of the southern, the supply of
Lancaster, Preston, &c.; and yet those ports are accessibl rom
the sea. This canal has an opening to the sea by a short cut