t^^ ' Crinan cdnlil. Sept. 26,' 



itself anotKer opening to tiie Western OceanJ ty whick 

 might be dischaiged all the superfluous water that ftiouW' 

 ever be accumulated theie by land floods or otherwise, 

 Vfitliout iucommodiag the navigation in the smallest de- 

 gree. Thus would there bs obtained, without any expence, 

 a perpetual and abuniant supply of water, without ever be- 

 ing incommoded with one drop more than was wanted. 



Several years ago, Mr Watt, the ingenious improver of 

 the steam engine, was employed by the commifsioners for; 

 managing the forfeited estates in Scotland, to survey 

 both these pafscs, and to make an estimate of the expence 

 of cutting a canal in each of them, from whose report . 

 the following particulars are extracted. 



Abstract of Mr IVatt'^s report and estimates of the expence of 

 making a canal of different depths acrofs the peninsula of 



Cantire, at Tarbat and Crinan. 



BytheTarhat \ By th Crinan 

 fafiage. I pijiage. 

 The total distance"between high watermark 



on each side the isthmus, — — I m.le 6§ miles 



Tlie greatest perpendicular rise above 



high wjter; neap tidts, is, — — 45 feet 75 feet 



The expence of a canal of seven feet dee» 



is estimated ac, — — L. 17 988 10 6 L 34 879 o 6,1 



Ditto of a canal of ten feet deep at. — 23.884 7 o 48,405 5 7 

 D'tto of a thornugh cut without locks, 

 of twelve feet deep at h gh water, neap 

 tides, a:, — — — — 73 84, 9 5 



Eittoof ditto, fifteen feet deep, at, — 120,789 9 6 



LOVE AND jOY. A TALE. 



In the happy period of the golden age, when all the ce- 

 lestial inhabitants descended to the earth, and conversed 

 familiarly with mortals, among the most cherillied of the 

 heavenly powers were twins, the offspring of Jupiter, 

 Love and Joy. Wherever they appeared, the flowers sprung 

 «p beneath their feet j the sun (hone with a brighter la- 



