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 mouth Harbour, or using the towing path in navigating the river of Carron, the sum of 4d. per ton, according to the registered admeasurement of such vessel

The last act relating to this navigation received the royal assent on the 8th of July, 1820. It is entitled, An Act for altering and amending several Acts for making and maintaining the Forth and Clyde Navigation; wherein it appears, that since the passing of the act of 39th George III. the company have, by enlarging the canal, and increasing its depth to 9 feet, and by other works, expended the further sum of £98,315, including the £40,000, borrowed under authority of the last-recited act; by which their stock has accumulated to, and is hereafter to be considered as £519,840.

Power is given to borrow £80,000, on assignment of the rates, for the purpose of making the canal 1 foot deeper, so that the navigation may be 10 feet deep throughout.

The original object proposed by this canal was to open a communication between those important rivers, the Forth and Clyde, and between the northern metropolis and the manufacturing towns of Glasgow and Paisley; and whether as respects the utility of the work, the magnitude of the undertaking, or the skill and ingenuity with which it was designed and executed, the Forth and Clyde Canal will ever hold a distinguished place amongst the most important branches of our inland navigation.

Besides the fine rivers above-mentioned, it is joined by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, near Falkirk; with the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway at its summit, near the last-mentioned village; and with the Monkland Canal and the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, at Port Dundas, near the city of Glasgow.

FOSS NAVIGATION.
33 George III. Cap. 99, Royal Assent 30th April, 1793.

41 George III. Cap. 115, Royal Assent 23rd June, 1801.

THE river which gives a name to this navigation, has its source near Newburgh Hall, about four miles north of Easingwold, whence it crosses Oulstone Moor, where a reservoir is constructed, for the purpose of supplying the navigation in dry seasons. Its