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XXTI . A Survey and Report of the Coasts and Central 

 Higfdands of Scotland ; made by the Command of the 

 Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Ma^ 

 jesly's Treasury in tlw Autumn of 1802. By Thomas 

 TELf or.D, Civil Engineer, Edinburgh, F. R. S. 



[ConcluJeJ from p. 8i.] 



Appendix. 



Report from the Highland Society of Scotland* 



Queries referred to in the annexed Report. 



1st, ±Jor.s it consist with your knowledge, that the pro- 

 gress of improvement in the northern parts of Scotland is 

 nmch retarded by the want of roads and bridges ? If so, 

 what Inics would tend most etiectually to open the country 

 And promote the public good ? 



2d, Does the valley, which passes through the north of 

 Scotland from the Murray Frith on the cast to Loch Eil, 

 and the Linnhe Loch on the west, appear to you to be well 

 calculated for an inland navigation, if formed of a size suf- 

 licient to admit of lai'se trading vessels and frigates ? (I 

 liavc, for the sake of distinction, named this navigation the 

 Caledonian Canal.) 



odf Would this navigation, by opening a ready and safe 

 comnuinication from one side of the island to the other, 

 prove the means of promoting the extension of the fishe- 

 ries, and of throwing the industry and intelligence of the 

 iishers who reside on the east coast upon the extensive 

 iishing grounds along the west coast ? 



4th, Would the undertaking these public works at the 

 ■present time, by aRurding cinploymcnt to the people, giving 

 them habits of industry, and furnishing them with capital, 

 t«nd to check the spirit of emigration which now prevails, 

 and, connected with the powers which would be furnished 

 by using the water which flows down each extremity of the 

 valley from the extensive lochs, prove the means of laying- 

 thc certain foundation of future employment ? 



5th, It the executing these roads and bridges would prove 

 the means of employing the people, improving the agricul- 

 tural slate of the country, and of cxteuding^^the fisheries, 

 the nation would evidently derive an increase of revenue 

 and power ; and the land-owners through whose e-^tates the 

 lines of road passed, and indeed the whole of the adjoining 

 districts of country, would enjoy improved cultivation and 



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