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The chief object of this navigation is the export of the produce of the iron furnaces, coal mines and limestone quarries, which abound in the immediate vicinity. 

navigation was executed by a company, incorporated by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Aberdeenshire "Canal Navigation," and was opened for the passage of vessels in June, 1805. Its commencement is in the harbour of Aberdeen, on the north bank of the Dee, and in the tideway at the mouth of that river. For a short distance it takes a northern direction, and then proceeds to the east past the town of Aberdeen, to Wordside, at which place it approaches the southern bank of the River Don, nearly parallel to which it continues its course by Fintray to the town of Kintore: leaving that town to the west, and keeping the western side of the valley of the Don, it opens into that river at Inverurie, near its junction with the water of Urie. The length of this canal is about nineteen miles, and the fall from Inverurie, to low-water-mark in the harbour of Aberdeen, is 168 feet, by seventeen locks. The width of the canal is 23 feet, and its depth aver ages 3 feet 9 inches.

The first act for executing this useful work is entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Harbour of Aberdeen, in the parish of Aberdeen, or St. Nicholas, into the