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A new course has been cut for the 
river Lochy, along the bottom of the 
bank on the south side, where the 
Canal occupies the deserted part of 
the bed of the river, and the lake has 
been raised twelve feet above its an- 
cient level. The Canal proceeds by 
Corpach to Loch Eil, which commu- 
nicates with the Sound of Mull, and is 
part of the West Sea. At Corpach a 
sea-lock has been formed, cut out of the 
rock, and a small basin made within it, 
eapable of admitting a number of ves- 
sels with the flowing tide, which, after 
the gates are closed, may ascend the 
locks at leisure, of which the whole 
number will be twenty-five, and the 
number of lock-gates thirty-eight: 
these, by being in clusters, are much 
less expensive than in separate locks, 
on account of the back of one forming 
tirs front of the next; whereas separate 
locks must be complete in all their 
parts. Bridges have been constructed 
of cast-iron, similar to those at the 
West-India Docks and London Docks, 
which swing horizontally to each side 
of the Canal, or lock. At the eastern 
end of Loch Eil stands Fort William, 
as far as which there is a safe naviga- 
tion and harbour for shipping. In this 
manner the junction of the two seas 
has been effected. 
The Canal is twenty feet deep, fifty 
wide at bottom, and onc hundred and 
ten feet wide at top, and admits of the 
passage of thirty-two-gun frigates, and 
of course of the largest merchant ves- 
sels. It was originally intended to 
have cut the Canal so as to admit of 
forty-four gun frigates; but not only 
would the additional cost have been 
very great, but it was by no means 
certain that the depth of water in 
Goch Beauly, near the eastern en- 
trance of the Canal, would safely or 
conveniently admit the passage of 
frigates of so large a rate at the ordi- 
nary high-water depth. The time of 
passing a thirty-cight feet lock will be 
about twenty minutes, a forty feet lock 
about twenty-two minutes, and a 
forty-three feet lock twenty-five mi- 
nutes. 
The smallest size of vessels trading to 
the Baltic is about seventy-five fect 
in length, twenty-one feet in width, in 
draught of water twelve feet, and in 
burden one hundred and twenty. tons. 
The largest size is about one hundred 
and thirty feet long, thirty-five feet 
wide, in draught of water nineteen 
Medicinal Well at Kingston. 
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feet, and in burden six hundred and 
fifty tons. 00 
This union of the two seas. being 
effected, the amelioration of this. part 
of the Highlands, and of a considerable 
distance round, must be great and 
rapid. New sources: of industry and 
enterprise will be opened, new settle- 
ments will be established, new towns 
will rise, the fisheries will be increased, 
and agriculture will wave, wherever 
the soil will admit, her golden harvest. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, ; ; 
T Coomb farm, contiguous to the 
Earl of Liverpool’s residence, and 
in the neighbourhood of Kingston, 
Surrey, there is a well of water which 
possesses the most surprizing qualities 
as a remedy against that distressing and 
severe malady, thestone in the bladder. 
lts virtues unfortunately are little 
more than locally known, but the 
astonishing cure which it bas effected 
in the case of Mr. Samuel Jackson, the 
great currier, Little Windmill-street, 
merits that its restorative and sanative 
powers should be more universally 
diffused. That gentleman long suf» 
fered as much as it was possible for hus 
man nature to endure, from the intense 
agony produced by a most confirmed 
species of stone, and received all the 
advice which the head of the faculty 
were able to bestow; but, unfortu- 
nately, without the least mitigation of 
the complaint, arising from their skill. 
Mr. J. was induced, by the recom- 
mendation of a friend, to try the afore- 
said water, which he had fetched in 
large stone bottles, and which he used 
as his general beverage; and, in less 
than a fortnight’s time, he experienced 
a mitigation of his complaint. He is 
now, after two years’ trial, completely 
cured, and is as free from stone or 
gravelas any personage in thekigdom. 
This aforesaid water is so beautifully 
refined and filtered (if I may use the 
expression) by the hand of nature, that, 
if itis used for common household pur- 
poses for twenty years, it never pro- 
duces the least sediment or inerusta- 
tion in the utensil. Knowing the 
basis of this communication to be 
founded on truth, I wish to add my 
smal] mite to the laudable task of 
alleviating the sufferings .we are all 
liable to as human creatures. 
Cullum-street. 
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