OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN, 2; 



empties itfelf into the bay of Carrickfergus, having run 

 in the whole, after various windings, a courfe of near 

 thirty miles from its fource. 



Newry River, or, as it is otherwife called, the Water 

 of Newry, promifed, and for ages performed, as little 

 as any ftream in Ireland. It is neither confiderable 

 from the length of its courfe, there being but a few 

 miles from its fource to its fall, nor from its fize ; and, 

 with refpeft to its body of water, it was only navigable 

 in confequence of the tide flowing up, and, of confe- 

 quence, only fo long, and fo far, as it flowed. It rifes 

 near Rathfryland towards the weft, and in the barony 

 of Upper Iveagh ; taking firft a fouth-weftern courfe, 

 then tending to the north, runs under Crown-bridge 

 and Sheep-bridge ; it then turns nearly weft, towards 

 the valley which feparates Down from Armagh, where 

 it takes a fudden turn to the fouth, and foon after runs 

 into Carlingford bay. 



The canal has taken away thofe impediments, which 

 were irremediable in the river of Newry, and, by" 

 joining this river to the Bann, has opened a communi- 

 cation with Lough Neagh, by *which veflels of fifty 

 and fixty tons pafs through the heart of Ulfter. This 

 affords a direcl inftance of what has fo often been laid 

 down upon the fubjeft of canals, that, by a junction 

 of loughs and rivers, through the interpofition of ju- 

 dicious and well executed cuts, many parts of this 

 kingdom may, at no immoderate expence, be rendered, 

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