Beport on the profKtsed Okeliam and Boston Cav/il, 143 



widening the lock at Boston, to suit the breadth and draft 

 of vessels which navigate the liciccstefshire canals, very lit- 

 tle more is required to render it an excellent navigation. 



'* By the canal, line being carried along the Car Dyke, 

 it will not at all interfere wiih the navigations ol" the rivers 

 Glen and Bourne, because it passes above the places where 

 those navigations terminate : and as the waters of those 

 rivers will be passed under the canal, no apprehensions can 

 be entertained that their usual supplies will be lessened. 



*' The river Welland cannot be injured, because, during 

 winter and rainv seasons, the superabundance of water 

 will be more than sufficient for all purposes: and, in dry 

 seasons, as the supplies of water for this navigation are 

 proposed to be drawn from reservoirs situated near the 

 -summits of the country, they will be passed through 

 locks in the upj)er country, whicF\ are at least double the 

 , depth of those in the lower country, so that unless there 

 is more than double the quantity of business in the Fens, to 

 what is carried through the upper country, no additional 

 water can be required. Besides, the leakage from the 

 upper locks will be much more than from the lower ones, 

 consequently the surplus water must fall into the Welland, 



** The South forty-foot drain proprietors will have no 

 apprehensions of too great increase of water, in their 

 drain, when they consider the interest the canal proprie- 

 tors will have to preserve their water, by constructing very 

 shallow and perfect locks, and by adding to this, the great 

 extent of surface each lockfull has to spread over, and the 

 regulation which will constantly be taking place by the lock 

 at Boston. 



'' The conservators of the port and haven of Boston, 

 besides the certain prospect they will have of increasing the 

 prosperity of the place, must be sensible of the evident 

 advantage of deriving additional supplies of water to assist 

 in scouring out and maintaining the bed of the river be- 

 tween Boston and the sea. 



** The communication between Stamford and Boston, 

 by passing along the line of division between the Upland 

 and Fen countries, where the most populous market towns 

 and villages are situated, will (exclusively of the thorough 

 trade) be of great advantage to all the district of country 

 through which it passes, and afford adequate tonnage dues 

 In return ; so that, upon the whole, this ap>pears to be an 

 improvement \vhich will be generally beneficial, and will 

 interfere, as little as possible, with any established rights. 



" In order to render th.e inland navigation of this di- 

 strict 



