FORTH AND 40$ 



munication from Borrowftounncfs to join r 



Kalkirkj and in 178*, a bill wa^ 

 :t for that purj 



oik, when ; 1 affea the C. 



navigation, though every pofliblc effort hath been 



.irs ago, 



nadc m ..outh of the river, to cut off ;i 



ie proprietor of the 

 -mi^ lanJb put him: 



:, l>y \slmh the C'arron riv. v/ totally 



i, and navigable for 

 r burden. H.. it been made at 



the firft fctting out, there would have been no rival - 

 11 Borrowltounnds , but the whole bufmefs 

 i of blunders and unnecdliry ex- 

 public I proprietors are 

 eiju.i ii thole, whofc felfilh views hath 

 il to the whole dcfign in all its 

 (lages. The expenditure, down to 1783, amounts 

 to 212,000!. N .1 yet been made, or 

 can be w debts ihall be dil 

 when it m.iy be fuppoled, that the toral exjxrnditure 

 will be inert 220,000!. or 11,000!. per an- 



onnage, 



not amount to 7000!. About 6 miles, and thofe the 

 moll difficult in the whole trac~b, to be tinifh- 



ed ; for whu : nment hath allowed 50,000 1. 



from the : It to thefc furr 



ounnefs expenditure, and lub- 



.it cuts at the mouth of the Carron, this canal 



will cod 300,000!. or u; is to the firft 



, the tonnage is 

 rated lo high, that vcflcls carrying bulky goods, 



refer the long palTagc by the Pen 

 Fir; 



The dimenfions of this canal, though r on- 



tra&cd from the original deligns, are much fup 

 to any work- . ne nature in South Biirain. 



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