270 The Philosophical Society of Glasgow. 



1811 the reservoirs gave way, and their repair cost £8,000. One 

 of the latest grants of money voted in the last session of Parhament 

 was £12,000 to repair the etfects of the disaster of February ; but 

 this sum conveys an inadequate idea of the destructive effects of the 

 flood upon the canal, or of the injury done to property in the neigh- 

 bourhood. It is remarkable that no lives were lost. 



