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poses to join these small docks together by a canal parallel to 

 the quav, which would produce the advantage of scourinc; alter- 

 natively, as the tide served, every one of these basons hy the 

 water contained in the others. At the side of this canal and 

 the docks, warehouses of different descriptions could he con- 

 structed, and thus the mercantile depots would have heen nearly 

 central in the metropolis j besides this advantage, the water in 

 tfip canal would have heen of great use in case of fire. 



The Chevalier concludes these observations with the following 

 passage (page 190) : " According to this plan, the length of the 

 Bridges of Westminster, Waterloo, Blackfriars, and Southwark, 

 would have been considerahly lessened, and the saving thus pro- 

 duced would have been more than sufficient for the building of 

 .1 new bridge in the place of London Bridge; the great exjien^e 

 of the London Docks would have amply covered the costs of the 

 execution of the plan which I have thus sketclicd in its outlines, 

 if it had been proposed and attended to at the proper time. 

 But at present the only object which is most deserving of the 

 public attention, is the construction of a new bri<lgc in the place 

 of London Bridge, and that of a regular solid quay along the 

 banks of the river, and whether, notwithstanding the excavation 

 of the London Docks, the small shipbasons, which I proposed, 

 would yet be of moment and use for the trade. I therefore 

 leave it to the judgement and to the consideration of the British 

 engineers, to decide whether this part of my plan still deserves 

 to be attended to, and in what manner the principal ideas of it,viz. 

 the construction of solid banks of the Thames, the excavation of 

 small shipbasons, and the project of the new Bridge in place of 

 London Bridge, might best be determined and executed. But 

 before it is possible to enter into the particulars of these pro- 

 jects, it is indispensably necessary to procure more minute sound- 

 ings of the river, than those that to the best of my knowledge 

 have yet heen made " 



M. La Beauiue has in the press ** Observations on the Pro- 

 perties of the Air-Pump Vapour- Bath, pointing out their El'i- 

 eacy in the Cure of Gout, Rheumatism, Palsy, &c. with cursory 

 Remarks on factitious Airs, and on the improved State of medical 

 Electricity in all its Branches, particularly in that of Galvani'-m, 

 and their Efficacy in various Diseases." 



Mr. Jonathan Otlev, an ingenious mechanic, of Keswick in 

 Cumberland, whose iiitimate acquaintance with the diitrict of 

 the Lakes, and with its curiosities and natural productions, lias 

 ft-cquently occasioned him to be i,electcJ a- a viiUe to vi^itor> ; 



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