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ORIGINAL COMyxUNICATIONS 



To the Editor of the Montldy Magazine. 



sill, 

 C:<'oME years since a survey was 

 >^ taketi,"bv thitt able eugineor Mr. 

 Kennu-, (.f the -round Iving between he 

 month of the River Parrct, Hcross tlie 

 rounlrv 10 Sotiton, in the eastern ct^rner 

 ot-"tUshire, on the eoast or the Eng- 

 lish Channel, toascertanithefeasibi.ty 

 of effceting a jui.etion between that 

 channel ana the Bristol Channel (..to 

 which the River Parret e.npt.cs itselt), 

 ft, order for .hii)s to avoid the^c.rcu.t.)«s 

 ,oyage round the Lands End The 

 <iesi-"i I believe, was to make the ca- 

 nal or river sufficiently deep to carry 

 ships of any burthen: and to eflectuatc 

 Sat in the course of about three days, 

 Ihieh somethncs, in the wniter season, 

 r.d tempestuous weather at other times 

 o lie year, takes frequently three nay 

 sometimes six, weeks to aecmnpUsh ; 

 and a truly national uudeitakuig it 



'"Tl.t reason why it was not then gone 

 into is not dillicult to be g.vcn ; but. it is 

 anmchended, that now ciicutnstances 

 aSSially altered. It will be my 

 present business to sltew bow it may 

 itow be cOoctuated with considerable ad- 

 >Hiitage to the country at la. ge. 



Bv Mr. Reunie's Burvey, the whole 

 elevation of the land is, I tliiuM'onu^re 



than one hundred .ind eighty »--<;t- «^. 

 I believe, estimated the expense of the 

 Ihole ui'idertaking at l.'iW.OOOl. It 

 ^c take into the account U.e 'l'U';';'-"«;« 

 in the price .)f labour and o! landatttiat 

 Sme and at the present, it is ia.r to e.m- 

 •cludc, that what wo.ild thtn cost 

 1 '200 0001. cannot cost more than 

 JOOO'.WKII. now; 1 i»igl't cv<.'n go tar- 

 llicr :ind say that, as mnch labour and 

 lind nirght niw be bunghl for ^W*^'. 



as, five years ago, could be bought fofr 

 1,200,0001. 



So much for the value of the labonf 

 and land ; now as to the utilities of th* 

 undeitaking. 



jrii-gf_ — The expedition and safety 

 with which goods cotikl be conveyed 

 from Ireland, Glasgow, Liverjjool, Bris- 

 tol, and other contiguous parts, to Ply- 

 mouth, Portsmouth, London, rrance, 

 and every other part of the northern con- 

 tinent of Europe — the facility with 

 whicii corn and cattle could be convey- 

 ed f.om Ireland to London— must be of 

 the first importiHice, and bring at onca 

 that maiket to be able to compete witli 

 the ports of France at London, when- 

 ever it should bci-ome necessary to per- 

 mit the importation of those articles. 



Sfcond. — The more immediate com- 

 munication which it wonlfl open vitli 

 the south of Leland — au increase of its 

 t.ado, the consequence of such commu- 

 nication — the great increase in the value 

 of its land, and, of course, of the reve- 

 nues of that hitherto depressed and uu- 

 foitunate country ;— amoie intimate ad- 

 mixture of its inhabitants with the inha- 

 bitants of this country will, in all proba- 

 bility, tend more to destroy the spirit of 

 J/igotry and superstition than any pentil 

 or'' prohibitory laws c:ui possibly do. 

 Commerce is the soul, the bones and si- 

 news, of improvenieut ; had not England 

 been a commercial nation, in what rank 

 •would she have stood in arts, sciences, 

 :i!id literature, amongst the nations of 

 the earth ? 



Third. — A more extensive communv- 

 catiou, on the southern coast, of the ad- 

 va.itages resulting from the coal-trade 

 of \Viiles, and of course a great inciease 

 to that trade throughout the whole lino 

 of the proposed canal. 

 2^ottrtk,r--.\. gieat trade would be ge- 

 3 i) uMated 



