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 the Monkland Canal and the Garnkirk Railway, which connect with the Ballochney and the Garturk and Cariongill Railways, by means of which, coal is supplied at a comparatively low rate; besides these, considerable advantages arise from a branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal, terminating on the east side of the city, which gives certain communication with the Forth, and city of Edinburgh.

Some idea may be formed of the traffic to the Clyde, from a return to parliament, by which it appears, that three hundred and ten British, and thirty-seven Foreign Ships, entered it in the year 1824.

Before the American War, the import of tobacco from Maryland and Virginia, into this river, was from 35 to 45,000 hogsheads, and the year immediately preceding that event, the amount was 57,143 hogsheads. From the West Indies, 540,198 hogsheads of sugar, 1,251,900 gallons of rum, and 6,530,177 lbs. of cotton were imported. Of the exports, which consist chiefly of their own manufactures, we need not do more than state, that in 1815, there were 52 cotton mills, containing 511,200 spindles; 18 works for weaving by steam power, which weekly produced 8,400 pieces; 39 calenders, which worked off, daily, 118,000 yards; besides dressing 116,000, and glazing 30,000.

COLNE RIVER.
21 James I. C.34, R. A. - - - - 1623.

9 &amp; 10 Wil. III. C. 19, R. A. 16th May, 1698.

5 Geo. I. C. 31, R. A. 18th Apr. 1718.

13 Geo. II. C.30, R. A. 29th Apr. 1740.

23 Geo. II. C. 19, R. A. 12th Apr. 1750.

21 Geo. III. C. 30, R. A. l8th May, 1781.

THIS river rises a few miles north-west of Castle Hedingham, in the hundred of Hinckford, Essex, by which places it runs to the town of Halstead; from whence, it takes a more eastwardly course by Earls Colne Priory, to The Hythe, near the town of Colehester, from which place to the sea, into which it falls at Mersea Island, it is navigable. From The Hythe to Wivenhoe, the distance is three miles and a half and from thence the river opens into an estuary, terminating in the sea opposite the eastern end of Mersea Island, at the distance of four miles and a half. It is one of the earliest navigations, as appears by an act of the 21st James I.