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dedicated to the queen of Spain. This work has been printed 

 in the Spanifh language : it would be very worthy of being 

 tranflated into French, which would be the means of giving it 

 greater publicity. 



ACCOUNT OF NEW BOOKS. 



North London R e p 0r t f the intended North London Canal Navigation ; with 

 general EJlimate, Sfc. fyc. By R. Dodd, Engineer. 

 1802. p. 23 Quarto. 



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HE line of this intended canal is to communicate with the 

 Thames near Bell-Wharf, and, paffing through Ratcliffe and 

 Whitechapel, is to join a bafon near Hackney turnpike, 

 from which the the main line is to extend to the river Lea 

 near Waltham Abbey, Two collateral cuts are alfo to be 

 continued from this bafon for the convenience of the eaftern 

 and northern fuburbs of the city. From Waltham Abbey 

 the river Lea is to be navigated as far as Bifhop's Stortford, 

 at which place the intended line will again commence and be 

 continued until it forms a junction with the Cam below Cam- 

 bridge, From thence that river is navigable to the wafh or 

 Lynn deeps. 



The advantages to be derived from the propofed meafure 

 are numerous, whether confidered as facilitating the con- 

 veyance of provifions to the capital ; as furnithing a fafer and 

 cheaper communication from the wharfs and warehoufes at 

 the eaftern extremity of the town, to the northern and weftern 

 parts of it ; as leflening very much the diftance and danger 

 of water carriage between the metropolis and the whole of 

 the eaft coaft ; or, as affording the government a ready means 

 of tranfporting troops and military ftores in the event of an in- 

 vafion of that part of the Iiland. « 



The general advantages of Canals as well as thofe peculiar 

 to the prefent ftatute are ftated with confiderable perspicuity 

 by Mr. Dodd in the prefent volume. 



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