1804.] 
the cutting of fome rock ; and in compli- 
ance with the advice of Mr. Jeffop, the 
cafing of the locks with mafonry, to fave 
time in pafling them. All thefe labours 
were carried on, and the feveral enquiries 
made by Mr. Telford and his affiftants 
from the time of his arrival in Scotland, 
in the beginning of Auguft, 1803, to the 
beginning of February, 1804. 
In order to provide the moft fatisfac- 
tory documents in regard to the nature 
and expence of the whole undertaking, the 
commiflioners employed Mr. William Jef- 
fop to furvey the propofed works and line 
in concert with Mr. Telford, and to re- 
port the refult of his furvey. Mr. Jeffop 
received all requifite information from Mr. 
Telford, and likewife, made, perfonally 
the moft careful enquiries. The ftatement, 
in which thefe gentlemen agreed, fixed the 
whole expence of the canal, at £.4745531> 
befide £.15,000, for the purchafe of ne- 
cecflary land, and £.8,000 for anchors and 
mooring chains, for the locks. Thecom- 
miffioners then defired to know, at what 
annual expence the works might be fuita- 
bly carried on; and in how many years 
they might be completed? Mr. Telford 
and Mr, Jeflop agreed, that £.75,000a 
year would be the proper expenditure ; 
and that the works might be, without ex- 
traordinary exertion, completed in 7 years, 
from the time of their commencement. 
They made this eftimate upon the confi- 
deration that the canal fhould be 20 feet 
deep, and 38 feet broad ; that the length 
of the locks in the chamber, fhould be 
sbout 1652 feet; that there fhould be, on 
the whole line, 23 locks, and as many 
bridges ; and that the extraordinary coft 
of the whole, above the common expence 
of canal-work, in-the mof favourable cir- 
cumftances, would be about £.60,000. 
The total fum expended on the under- 
taking was, on the 28th of March, 1804, 
£6052 ro !0% fterling. 
The commiflioners, on that day,’ finifh- 
ed their firfl Report to the Houfe of Com- 
mons, in cbedience to the AG, under 
which they had their authority. The Re- 
port was printed, with a chart of the line 
of the canal, and with the othér documents 
upon which the repre{entations in the te- 
port were founded. Mr. Addington, 
while yet in office, had the merit of re- 
commerding it to the Hcufe of Commons, 
to fupport the profecution ef the undertak- 
ing, by a new grant of £.75,000, for the 
prefent. That meafure was eafily agreed 
fo; and, we have rcafon to believe, that 
fhe works of the Caledonian canal, will 
be continued, without interruption, at the 
Account of a recent Voyage to Malta. 
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public expence, till they fhall be entirely 
completed. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT Ofarecent VOYAGE 10 MALTAs 
(Continued from page 545.) 
PRIL 30, Friday morning. I des. 
livered my letters of introdudtion, 
and had the pleafure of dinning with the 
ce ], to whom I had one. On the Sa- 
turday, after icveral attempts fo fucceed at 
Floriano, a fort of {uburb to La Valetta, 
the city on whofe quay we landed, I and 
another gentleman, took two good cham- 
bers in one of the principal ftreets, for 
which we were to pay five fhillings (a dcl- 
lar) per day ; to be provided with every 
{pecies of furniture, and good attendance, 
May 2, being Sunday morning, our 
very obliging friend, the C——, took us, 
after a very early breakfaft, to a village 
about 4 miles from Valetta to be fpe&tators 
of an annual proceffion of all the religious 
orders in theifland, to the church of aneigh- 
bouring Cafal. This proceffion being the 
firft Ihad feen in a catholic country, by its 
glittering variety, (truck me forcibly.~ It 
was inftituted many years ago, in fulfil- 
ment of a vow made by the then bifhop of 
the ifland, on the occafion of a dreadful 
peftilence, which, fhould the peftilence 
ceafe, bound himielf and his fucceffors: for 
ever to the repetition of the ceremony. 
The proceffion occupied a length of two 
miles, and conhited of not le!s than two 
thoufand peri‘ons; the greater part m 
white furplices, with broad crimfon filk 
or fatin copes, that fell from the neck over 
the fhoulders to the elbows. Others were 
dreffed in white, with blue, black or pur- 
ple filk copes. Some all in white, fome 
all black ; many had rich gold erofles em- 
broidered on the left breaft of their copes 3 
and very rich lace beneath them. Great 
numbers bore large damafk fatin flags of 
ali colours, crimion, white, blue, dark 
and light green, or purple; others, gay 
crucifixes, filver lanterns, tapers, &c. fome 
in bands played on violins, violoncellos, 
and other mufical inftruments, which 
others accompanied wyth their voices. 
The cavalcade moved flowly along to 
the great gate of the elegant church of the 
Safal, which was this day hung round 
with its fairelt veltments. There entering, 
it was faluted near the high altar with vo- 
cal mufic, and then bending to the north 
aifle, paiied out at the nerth-weft coor. 
The whole proceflion was terminated by 
the venerable bifho» of the ifland himfelf; 
he was fplendidiy hab ted. in green and 
purple, 
