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not meeting with the approbation of fome noblemen and gen- ^^'^°""* °^ 

 tlemen in that part of Scotland, they oppofed the bill, and obli- 

 ged themfelves to execute a greater canal, which has now been 

 many years finifhed, and is found to be of the greateft advan- 

 tage to the trade and commerce of Scotland. The merit of this 

 undertaking is not meant to be afcribed to Dr Roebuck, ex- 

 cepting in fo far as it neceffarily arofe from the eftablifhment 

 of the Carron Company, of which he was the original projedor; 

 and it may reafonably be doubted, whether, without that efla- 

 bliihment, it would have yet taken place. Several other canals 

 have, fince that time, been executed in different parts of Scot- 

 land, and other very important ones are at prefent proje(fled. 



The different eflablifhments which Dr Roebuck made at. 

 Borrowflounnefs in carrying on the coal and fait works there, 

 though ultimately of no advantage to himfelf, were attended, 

 during the courfe of thirty years, with the moll beneficial ef- 

 fe<5ls upon the trade, population, and induftry of that part of 

 Scotland. They were the means alfo of adding very confide- 

 rably to the public revenue. Previous to the time thefe works 

 fell under Dr Roebuck's management, they produced no ad- 

 vantage either to the proprietor, or the adventurers, or to the 

 public. But by his mode of condu(5ling them upon a more ex- 

 tenfive plan, by opening up new feams of coal, and of better 

 quality, he was enabled to export a very confiderable quantity, 

 to increafe the quantity of fait, and, of courfe, the revenue ari- 

 fing from thefe articles. In thefe works, and in the manage- 

 ment of a large farm, Dr Roebuck gave employment to near 

 a thoufand perfons at Borrowflounners, and in the neighbour- 

 hood. 



Nor was it folely by the different eflablifhments which he, 

 proje(5led and executed, but by many other things neceffarily. 

 connedled with them, that Dr Roebuck's labours were beneficial 

 to Scotland. Along with them he may be faid to have introdu- 



(L a) ced : 



