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 that is carried on, en this part of the na- 

 vigation : Alio a wharf for felHng coals, 

 with cranes ereded for loading and un- 

 loading boats : Here, hkewife, his Grace's 

 people burn charcoal. 



Advancing with th« canal, we come to 

 Dunbanii paffing through a. lock conftrudt- 

 ed upon the fame prij^iple as the canal- 

 doors, (o often mentioned. Dunhcm 

 fchool is ittn upon the left ; a plain and 

 unornamented, but elegant front ; as pleaf- 

 ing, of the kind, as any one I remember to 

 have ittn. A little further, we came to 

 the works then executing, which are of 

 the nature of all in this great undertaking : 

 The canal is here carried over tvv'o roads, 

 and the river BoUarn ; and a great inequa- 

 lity in the farface of the country remedied 

 by a fyftem of locks, of which there are 

 eight, within a vaft frame-work of tim- 

 bers, in the diftance of about thirty yards. 

 "When finiflied, and the water navigated, 

 all thefe locks will be pafTed by a gang of 

 barges, in lefs than twenty minutes. The 

 canal croffcs the roads and the river, on vaft 

 arches, in the fame manner as already de- 

 fcribed and reprefented. The activity and 

 ipirit with which the workmen carry on 



their 



