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, to be applied in repairing or making any alteration in the necessary drainage works, which may be required in consequence of the making and completing this navigation.

The object of this navigation is to open a short and more ready communication between Glastonbury and the sea, and to facilitate the exportation of the agricultural produce of that part of Somerset, and to import fuel and other general merchandize.

GLENKENNS CANAL.
42 George III. Cap. 114, Royal Assent 26th June, 1802.

THIS navigation commences in the tideway of the River Dee, close to the north side of the town of Kirkcudbright, whence it takes a northerly course, running parallel with and on the east bank of the Dee, by Kelton House, to Loch Ken, into which it enters a short distance south of Glenlochar Bridge. This part of the navigation is ten miles and a quarter, and has fourteen locks upon it, besides a stop lock and weir at its entrance into Loch Ken. This navigation is continued for the space of twelve miles and a half through Loch Ken, by Kenmore Castle and the town of New Galloway, a little beyond which place a canal of three miles in length extends to the Boat Pool at Dalry, where the navigation terminates. The total length is twenty-five miles and three quarters. Mr. John Rennie projected the navigation, and made the estimate, which amounted to the sum of £33,382.

The act for making it received the royal assent on the 26th June, 1802, and is entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the Boat Pool of Dalry, in the Glenkenns, to the port and town of Kirkcudbright, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. The subscribers for carrying the work into execution, consisted of twenty-eight persons, (amongst whom were the Hon. John Gordon, the Hon. Montgomerie Granville Stewart, Sir William Douglas, and Sir Alexander Gordon,) who were incorporated by the name of "The Company of Proprietors of the Glenkenns Canal Navigation," and empowered to raise among themselves the sum of £30,000, in three hundred shares of £100 each; and a further sum of £15,000, if necessary, by equal calls