Recommendation by sundry noblemen and gentlemen, for completing the great canal of communication between the friths of Forth and Clyde.
[London?],
1779.
Dated at foot of the text: February, 1779.
Title from dated docket title.
The opening words of the text are: "The navigation round Great Britain is, during the winter months, dangerous by the Channel, and impracticable by the Orkneys from the east side; .. An act of parliament passed in 1768, for making a navigation across the island, to join the east and west seas, between the heads of the friths of Forth and Clyde, ..".
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