

678 REMARKS ON DOCTOR 



iflage of the fifhing veffels to and from Loch Rroom or 

 King Grrrge's channel, being -i t 



i. 'IV 1 



pioprictor ot ihc peniniula of Ardnamuichnn, pi 

 pouibilify of forming an opening ti 

 Moidajt, as pr< ; at the ex j- 



engravcd t: 

 This i 1 that and other lub- 



in the h 



James Riddel, his fuccUibr, ' s favoured wr 



perufnl of them. The plan i , .-.nnot be of 



public utility until the main cut fhall be linilhed. 



We now come to the fouthern navigation, \\horcon the doctor 

 life* '.!?:!< JMII The Loch Crinan naviga. 



44 tion he conceives to be one of thoic lej/cr undertakings that are 

 u perfectly adapted to the prefcnt ihte of the country, 

 '* might be HO-*V undertaken with a certainty of indemnification to 

 undertak 



Not fatisiied with one canal between Lochfine and tht 

 Sea, as propofctl in the former editions of this work, and now 

 further elucidated, (fee page 10) the doctor prop* 

 at the Tarbit, diitant only 12 or 14 miles from the former. 

 " Both theic canals, he has no doubt, were proper acts of parlia- 

 '* ment obtained for that purpole, to gr nablc fecurity to 



" thole concerned, might be executed by private hands, with 

 ** very little, if any, public aid." 



Speaking in another place of the Crinan canal, we have the 

 following remarks ; which, if they do not edify the people of 

 that country, will, at lealt, afford ample matt mcnt. 



** It muft be adverted to," fays he, " that this canal will ferve to 

 " join two fe-as of coniiderable extent ; (he means Lochfit. 

 ' i to 6 miles, and the Atlantic 3000 miles wide) and t!v 

 ** no rrafies of bulky or weighty commoHitics immediately in that 

 " neighbourliood, that would require to be :ough it to 



" market ; of courfe, all the commodities that would pafs through 

 44 it, would be brought from a diftance in fhips. In t 1 

 44 place, as the goods to be carried through that canal, would be 

 44 always intended for a more dijlant market toother, &c." 



The traffic and navigation of t: Ixjiug fully itated in 



the chapter on that head, beginning with page 410 K 

 tioned, we fliall in this place only obierve, that the immediat. 

 of the canal and its neighbourhood, will chiefly conlill in cmptv 



ird and homeward; pickled and d.icd liih, Ik: 

 timbc- . OM Hone, Hate, &c. fo that, to muK 



the dortor, we mufl again reverfe his language, as thus; there 

 are no goods immediately in that neighbourhood that would K - 

 o be carried through the canal, but fuch as are bulky or 



. :th regard," fays he, " to the fecond queftion, whetter 



44 fliould 



