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 Monkland, and the Forth and Clyde Canal, for the purpose of exporting the minerals and manufactures of that place and vicinity, and it has fully answered the end proposed. It traverses a distance of more than ten miles, in a northerly direction from Monkland to Kirkintilloch. Taking the surface water of the Forth and Clyde Canal as a level, there is a rise, from the basin where the railway communicates with that work, to its termination at Palace Craig, of 133 feet 11 inches. In its way it passes by Howes, at which place there is a branch of three quarters of a mile in length, with a rise, from the aforesaid level, of 161 feet 3 inches to Kipps' Colliery. It connects with the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, and with the Ballochney Railway, and also with the Wishaw and Coltness Railway; besides connecting the Monkland Canal with the above railroads and the Forth and Clyde Canal, thus giving facility to the export of immense quantities of coal, ironstone and limestone, with which this district abounds.

Mr. Thomas Grainger was the engineer employed, whose estimate for the whole, including the basin at the Forth and Clyde Canal of one hundred yards square, was £24,953, ls. 5d.; the necessary funds for which were raised by shares of £50 each.

LANCASTER CANAL.
32 Geo. III. C. 101, R. A. 11th June, 1792.

33 Geo. III. C. 107, R. A. 10th May, 1793.

36 Geo. III. C. 97, R. A. 14th May, 1796.

40 Geo. III. C. 57, R. A. 20th June, 1800.

47 Geo. III. C. 113, R. A. 13th Aug 1807.

59 Geo. III. C. 64, R. A. 14th June, 1819.

THIS stupendous undertaking commences, at 144 feet 9 inches above the level of the sea, near Kirkby Kendal, to the north of which place it has a feeder from the Mint Beck; it proceeds in a southerly direction to the tunnel at Hincaster Green; from this tunnel it turns directly eastward till it crosses Stainton Beck, where it again bends to the south and continues a sinuous course in that direction past Beetholme, Milthorp and Burton-in-Kendal, near the division of the counties of Westmoreland and Lancaster; it then locks down 75 feet by nine locks, in a place named Tewit Field; here a branch was intended to run off westward to the lime rocks of Warton Cragg, the main line proceeding in a south-easterly direction to Barwick, not far from which place it crosses the River