41* CANAL BETWEEN INVERNESS 



Seas, rivers, and artificial navigations, leading to 

 thefc diftant people, fhores, and fifherics, ought at 

 lead to be free. Upon this principle, every propo- 

 fal of individuals fhould be rejected as incompatible 

 with the caule of humanity* the general interefts of 

 the empire, and the fuccefs of that naval bulwark 

 by which the remaining conftiturnt parts may be re- 

 tained. A draft upon the exchequer of Scotland 

 for 6o,oool. payable to Mr. Smeaton, or Mr. Whit- 

 worth, engineers, would at once fettle the matter, and 

 gratify the wifhes of a whole kingdom. 



Navigation between Invcrnefs and Fort William. 



A THIRD, or northern navigation, of very 

 confiderable utility, alfo claims the attention of 

 the public. Geographers have ufually defcribed 

 Scotland under two natural divifions; the countries 

 lying fouth of the Forth, and thole on the north fide 

 of that river. Such people, however, who have tra- 

 verfed the kingdom, muft have perceived that Na- 

 ture feems to point out three divifions, the fouth, 

 the middle, and the north. 



Between the found of Mull on the weft, and the 

 Murray Firth on the eaft fide of the kingdom, there 

 is a level or chafm compofed of land and water, 

 which feparates the mountains of the middle divifion, 

 from thofe of the north, fo completely, that, with 

 the afliftance of art, fhips might pafs between them, 

 from fea to fca. 



On the weft fide of this extcnfive valley is the 

 Linnhe-Loch, penetrating from the found of Mull, 

 24 miles * north-eaft, and fo capacious, that fhips 

 of the line have been moored as high as Inverlochy, 

 now known by the ijame of Fort William or Mary- 



' The miles in the following calculations, are geographical 

 milei, 60 to a degree; and which make 69^ Knglifh Itatute miles. 



burg. 



