PLAN OF TOWNS, &c. 



Cutting 5 miles between Loch Cri-^ 



nan and Lochfine, i 2 feet (! , 



which would favc above 100 [ o,ocx> 



!cs. 





:ncc no icd for /. 224,000 



lofs fuflained by the tedious 

 and hazardous paffage round the Pcntland Firth, in 

 .images it lea, fliipwrecks*, captures, extra 

 it and inlur.incc, amounts, in one year on! 



complete the above works of ge- 

 utility to commerce and navigation ; and if 

 to this we add the great object of relieving the dif- 

 trefles of 300,000 or 400,000 people ; of bringing 

 them forward into the line of action ; and of open- 

 ing new fources of commerce and wealth within our 

 own ifland, it is matter of aftonifhment that : 

 works have not been completed long ago. 



y of laying the Foundation of 7*o:cns in tbe '. 

 Highlands. Plan of tbofc Vowns. Eflinatts of tbt 



;<?. 



TH E ncceflity of bringing the Highlanders 

 nearer to the Low Countries, by means of in- 

 land navigations, hath been dated, as the ground 

 work in the propofed plan of national improvement. 

 The facility by which that bufmcfs may be com- 

 pleted hath alfo been explained ; and no argument 

 of any weight can be advanced againft its being 

 ried into execution. A requifition, founded on hu- 

 manity, juflice, and national expediency, cannot 

 have many opponents. would it be wa. 



the only expencc neceflary to extend the fiftierics, 



J umberi of people in the ;ihndi get t living by at* 



ny weather, where they find the timber*, 



alfo calks, and other floating parts of the cargoes of vcflcls thai 

 have been broke to pieces on the rocks. 



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