CHAP. VI. 



CHIRK AQUEDUCT. 



343 



a landscape of great beauty, in the centre of which Tel- 

 ford's aqueduct forms a highly picturesque object. 





CHIRK AQUEDUCT. 

 [By Percival Skelton, after bis original Drawing ] 



The aqueduct consists of ten arches of 40 feet span 

 each. The level of the water in the canal is 65 feet above 

 the meadow, and 70 feet above the level of the river 

 Ceriog. The proportions of this work far exceeded every- 

 thing of the kind that had up to that time been attempted 

 in England. It was a very costly structure ; but Telford, 

 like Brindley, thought it better to incur a considerable 

 capital outlay in maintaining the uniform level of the 

 canal, than to raise and lower it up and down the sides of 

 the valley by locks at a heavy expense in works, and a still 



