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Some Account of the General Plan of Navigable Canals.
SEVERAL of our readers having suggested, that plans of the public canals, lately completely,, for the purposes of inland navigation, of others now forming, and of some that are still in contemplation, would be of use not only to those whole dwell in the neighbourhood of those canals, nut to the public in general, application was made for that purpose to Mr. Charles Whitworth,draughsman to the celebrated Mr. Brindley, who approved the design, and furnished us with such surveys as he himself had actually made, and also with others that were laid before the Parliament.
But local surveys, however pleading to those upon the spot, were not found intelligible enough to interest the public in their publication, without a general plan, by which there immediate connection and communication with each other might be seen at one with: we, therefore, were advised to procure such a plan, in order to make these detached surveys generally useful, which before were but partially understood. 
It is this plan that we now offer to the public. It is unincumbered with names, that the different courses of the canals many be more easily be traced.
The extent of these canals could hardly have been though praeticable at first letting out. Whoever had suggested the establishment of the inland navigation from Kendal, in Westmoreland, to London, before the taste for inland navigations became the mode,would have been looked upon as a visionary, and his undertaking would have been treated rather as the project of madman, that the practicable design of an able engineer: and yet, by the plan exhibited, it appears that the fame had been, or will be soon, affected, without such asn idea having ever entered into the minds of those by whom it either is, or will be completed. 
The course of this navigation is well worth observing.
From the extremity of the annexed.
GENT. Mag. May, 1773. 

Plan at a, the navigation here spoken of is carried on to b, by means of the Lancaster canal; and from b to c, by that of Liverpool and Leeds' from c to b, the river Mersey continues it, and there the Duke of Bridgewater's navigation breaks avay form the direct course, which, however, is contained to n, by the canal that joins the Trent and Mersey. At u the Stafford canal breaks off, which joins the Trent to the Severn; but the navigation of London is still carried forward by the Coventry canal which continues the line to c, where the Oxford canal commences, which continues it to the river Thames, and by that river it is brought forward to London; a course of inland navigation (reckoning the windings) of near 500 miles in extent. 
But the grand project that immediately presented itself after that begun by the Duke of Bridgewater, was opening a communication between the German and Irish seas; by which a hazardous navigation, of more than 800 miles by sea, might be reduces to little more than 150 miles within land. As this navigation carried the appearance of general convenience to the counties though which it passed,, it also promised large gained to the adventures; and though it is not yet compleated, yet the success with which it proceeds had encouraged other adventures to embark in similar undertaking, by which it appears, that  there is not only a communication open by water, between Liverpool and Hull, by the way of Leeds, but also between the Bristol Channel and the Humber, but he Junction now made between the Trent and the Severn.
If there vast undertakings are considered as accomplished by private adventures, perhaps there are none such to be found of equal extent in the universe: and yet we have no reason to believe that the progress of canalling is yet at a stand in England. There are many tracts of country still to be traveled, that many be advantageously connected, and which, probably, will so connected in the course of a very few years. 
The distance, for instance, form Peterborough to Rugby, by which the Nene and the Avon many be joined, and, by that junction, the Nene and the Severn in a direct line, and the Neve and the Thames collaterally, is an undertaking inconsiderable in point of expense, in comparison to other navigations. 

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