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 the canal goes. The prefcnt navigatioil is 

 that of the river Merfey, or, in other words, 

 an arm of the fea for feveral miles, which 

 is at bell: but an infecure navigation for in-^ 

 land boats, not to fay a dangerous one, anil 

 occalions fuch precautions of the cxpeniive 

 kind, that the carriage of goods can never be 

 half fo cheap or regular as upon a canal. This 

 river partakes, with others, of difad vantages, 

 to which canals are not fubjedt, fuch as tides, 

 floods, working onewayagainft a ftream, &c* 

 &c. from all which the new navigations are 

 perfectly free; add to this,* the old naviga- 

 tion here is cramped with ten times the 

 number of locks, that the canal would be. 



But fomcthing fure is due to the execu- 

 tion and poifemon of works, which com- 

 mand the attention and admiration of all 

 Europe: The number of foreigners who 

 have viewed the Duke of Bridgewaters pre- 

 fent navigation, is iurprizing; what would 

 it be if his Grace was to extend it over a 

 boifterous arm of the fea:— -To exhibit a 

 navigation afloat in the air, with mips of 

 an hundred tons failing full malted beneath 

 it. What a fplendid idea I * 



* In fomeof thecor.trovc \ r : . I writings, published on 

 the proportion of a navigation from Hull ro Liverpool, 

 the prejudiced, or rither interefted people, who were 

 ftaunch friends to the old navigations, and, by the by, 

 ridiculed canals, in a manner which ratft now, while 

 fuch great fuccei^ attends then-, turn, I think, to their 



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