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or three extenfive bleach-greens in the neighbourhood 

 of Black-water town. Armagh is only four miles from 

 this village, with almoft a dead level the whole way ; 

 a canal, of courfe, would be found quite practicable. 



A canal, made from Verner's ferry, or from the 

 Moy to Dungannon, both about the fame diftance, not 

 exceeding five miles by land, would render the county 

 of Tyrone completely well circumftanced, perhaps as 

 much fo as any county in the kingdom. A few years 

 have (hewn, of what infinite advantage the Strabane 

 canal has been, and is likely to prove to the community. 

 A canal, from either of the above places to Dungan- 

 non, could not fail in producing the like effeft, lince , 

 the country, for many miles about each of thofe prin- 

 cipal towns, is nearly alike circumftanced, with this 

 difference, that Dungannon is quite furrounded^ by 

 bleach-greens, which is one principal reafon for intro- 

 ducing a canal. Situated as thofe towns are, at both 

 extremities of the county, renders them very advan* 

 tageoufly fituated for trade; either of them being within 

 twenty miles diftance of any part of the county, and, 

 confidera,bly nearer to all thpfe parts moft eminent for 

 the linen trade. Linens might be at once fent by water 

 to Dublin, to England, or to any other diftant part, in- 

 ftead of fending them on cars to Dublin, which at pre- 

 fent is the common mode. Dungannon is at prefent, 

 apd has been for many years back, a flourifhing 



town; 



