INVERNESS. 



long time, via, at Lower B<inavie, Upper Banavie, Shangan, 

 Muirfhearlich, and Loy, all of which had their arches en- 

 larged and paved at the bottom, or fide arches conftruAcd, 

 in order to terve as road arches under the canal, and fupcr- 

 fede the expeiice and great inconvenience of a« many com- 

 munication fning bridges over the canal : for which they 

 have been found very complete fubllitutcs. A large job of 

 mafon's work had alfo been completed in walling the in- 

 tended wharfs, 1 1^:; yards in length, at the fouth-eall end of 

 the large bafin intended for holding the fliips which trade to 

 Invernefs, fuch vvharfo being lituale within lefs than a mile of 

 the town. In the Clachnaeharry diihicl the malonry of 

 tlie road brid-^e at Muirtown had been completed, and a 

 temporary timber bridge laid upon it ; the mafonry of Bught 

 bridge was very nearly completed, and a temporary wooden 

 bridge had been laid over the middle of the eight Cor- 

 pach-mofs locks, for the road to Lochie-ferry and Fort- 

 William, where the mafonry for a fwing bridge had been 

 prepared. 



Of the earth works, the ftupendous embankments for the 

 lea-locks at the extremities of the canal have been men- 

 tioned : in Kinmylies lands, W. of Invernefs, a conliderable 

 embankment, acrofs fome low ground, had been very nearly 

 completed : a more confiderable and dilTicult embankment 

 along the whole courfe of the Nefs river, extends near half a 

 mile in length, under the deep bank of Torvaine ; a new 

 cliannel for the river being formed fouth of this, and the 

 new canal bank effcdually faced with loofe rubble llonc to 

 proteift it from tlie floods : at Molindour a finiilar embank- 

 ment along the bed of the old Nefs, and the making of a 

 new channel for it for a quarter of a mile in length, has 

 been completed, under Torremore, a lleep bank. In the 

 lands of Doughgarroch, near the Smithy, another embank- 

 ment for the canal acrofs a loop of the river, and enlarging 

 its channel on the further fide of a gravel ifland were in hand. 

 In the Corpach diltrict, embankments of earth have been 

 completed over each of I he five aqueduft bridges mentioned 

 above, and many fmaller o!.es, particularly in the rugged 

 tratt between Upper Banavie and Shangan aqueducts. The 

 principal extra cutting, or removing of earth, has been on 

 the S.E. of Clachnaeharry, wliere a bafon of ic acres 

 extent, being more than one-third of a mile lon^r, has been 

 completed ; the principal deep-cuttings partly executed in 

 this diflricl, being nine feet deep, for -about half a mile in 

 length, through the lands of Doughgarroch. The principal 

 work of extra cutting in the Corpach divilion, has be(n the 

 bafin next the fea-lock, great p.irt of which is hard i-ock- 

 cutting, and was partly completed, waiting for the fteam-- 

 engine to drain it : confiderable deep cuttings occur on each 

 fide of the rivulet of Moy, and near feveral others of the 

 aqueducts for ftraighteningthe courfe of the canal, and finding 

 fluff for adjacent embankments,. all of which were completed. 

 Having thus enumerated all the principal works which had 

 been entered on or completed, we ihall prefent an account 

 of the total expenditure from the commencement on the 

 20th of October 1803, to the third of May 1810, -mz. 



£. . J. ./. 

 Purchafe of lands and building?, and 1 



payments on account of damage for ,- 16.442 8 6 



the canal-wovks, roads, quarries, Sic. ) 

 Labour and workmanfliip paid by mea-"] 



fi!rement,orperjob,inexcavating,pud- '. ^^, ^^^ ^^ ^^s 



dling.banking, formingtemporaryrail- f -"' '^ "* 



roads, fawjng, and carpenters' work J 



Carry over 141,629 5 4i 



Brought over 141,629 5 



Labour and workmanfhip paid by tlie") 

 day or tide, fetting out and trying the ' 

 groimd, whifivcy for the men working [ 

 in the water, SiC. - - - J 



Quarries and mafonry work, and for^ 

 bricks, lime, and cement - - -J 



Timber, viz. foreign fir 7 

 and carnage - - j 



Native timber, purchafed ^ 



the neisrhbourhood, > 11, 795 15 s\ 



5.71 



70.971 



feUing, carriage, &:c. J 



21,106 8 



811 



Machinery, including four deam-engines,") 

 a fuw-mill, dredging-machine, iron rails | 

 forall the temperary rail-ways, various }> 29,869 19 

 tools and utenfils, and repairing of the | 

 fame, carriage, &c. ... J 



Shipping; building and rigging four") 

 (loops and barges, repairs, Ihorcs, fea- j 

 mens' wages, fhore dues, &c. in fetch- y S'Sli '^ 

 ing part of the itone from the diilant | 

 quarries to the works . . -J 



Purchafe and hire of horfes andprovender, 1 

 farriery, &c. for extra and irregular \ 

 works, the fuperintendant's nag, S:c. J 



Houfcs, compting-houfes, fheds, llables,"; 

 and other temporary buildings for the ' 

 ufe of the fuperintendants,. and the j 

 work - - - - -J 



Stationery, portage, .carriage of pai'cels, ") 

 feeds for the canal banks, &c. - J 



Expences of management, i;/"z. expences^ 

 of furveys and obtaining the adt, fur- 

 veys and valuations of land, juries, and | 

 conveyancing : the fecretary's, engi- ! q 



iicor's, and fuperintendant's falaries, [ '^" 

 keeping and copyingaccounts, reports, I 

 &.C., reducing and engraving maps, &c.. | 

 and travelling expences . - J 



2.345 3 



434 !■ 



Tota 



289,452 18 si 



The Britifh p'.iblic are b'.it little ufed, we are perfuaded, 

 to fee fuch efTcftual checks eJtabliflied on the expenditure 

 of their money, more real economy exercifed, or more minute 

 and fatisfadtory accounts produced, than the feries of valuable 

 reports furnifh, from which we have principally extradted 

 our accounts of this truly great national undertaking. From 

 a careful reellimate of what remained to be done by Mr. 

 Jefibp and Mr. Telford, a well-grounded hope is held out 

 that the whole undertaking will be entirely completed, 

 when the fum of ^yjiOOO.'. is expended, except, perhaps, 

 fome purchafcs of land in the middle dillridi, where no works 

 had yet been commenced. Our inquiries further enable us 

 to flate, that at the prefent time (April, 181 1) the excava- 

 tion in hard rock for the Corpach fea-lock has been com- 

 pleted to 20 feet beneath high-water of neap tides, and a 

 great proportion of the mafonry of tlie tide-loek completed ; 

 ih? mafonry of tlie great chain of eight locks near Corpach- 

 mofs is completed, and the regulating lock near loch Lochie 

 began : that plan, adopted for avoiding a coffer-dam to the 

 tide lock at Clachnaeharry has fucceeded, a part of the fpace 

 for it had. been excavated, and the water which fprang in, 

 eafily commanded by a fix-horfe engine ; and the regulating 

 lock near loch Nefs is Ln hand ; the number of men at pre- 



fetit 



