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to fpeak for a boat, to carry your party 

 the whole tour : (By the bye, it is a ftrange 

 affair that the town of Manchejler does 

 not poffefs a boat for the accommodation 

 of its own inhabitants, and ftrangers who 

 come to fee it : For want of one, you may 

 very probably wait a day or two :) And in 

 the mean time you may employ yourfelf in 

 viewing the works at Matichefter : This 

 was my plan. And it will not be amifs if 

 you afk for Mr. Mac-fomethingy — Maclean, 

 I think i the principal man that delivers 

 the coals : He is a fenlible, intelligent 

 fellow, and will fhew and explain every 

 thing here. 



The head of the navigation forms two ter- 

 minations, marked A and B, in the annexed 

 plan, Plate IV. Fig. 2. The firft is, a com-? 

 mon wharf for the landing of coals out of 

 large barges, for the fupply of carts and wag- 

 gons. The fecond is a fubterraneous canal, 

 arched over, into which long but narrow 

 boats enter, being of a conftrudlion fitted for 

 a peculiar purpofe elfewhere. This fubter- 

 raneous palTage extends from C to D. 



At E, in the roof of the arch turned over 

 this water, is a well, bricked like common 

 ones, which is funk from the ground above j 



(iV. B. 



