The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-17 00:00:00

THE BRITISH PRESS.

fors :impure to build an Inner pier of about 1,2*0 feet in
■nd terminate it in tirteen feet water at low water:
effectually prine,t the inner !whom, and the canal ru-
mor, IM the western side of the harbour front Hall ltuit t, I pro-
ps:•: extending a pier about 9110 reit. in order to check the Muni
of the sea t this would termini:de in 21111 %tart., rat low water, of
a spring title. There would he the, an to:trr shelter( II
by tv. 0 pier heads. where ships of '.;tl feet draft of water might run
into at all times; while ses,,he of &Aft, bowel for the•
canal, might at all times pa•.a within the inner phi„ •rod at ball
title enter the cabal basic : to obtain this basin, 1 worm,: rtouring
the upta•r part of sl.e Li) into a Meiling list, with it..' pie of
gates, to be opened at half title. tbr 'Le', Is In run in doting the
latter hallo! the Mow, and pass out at the first half of the ebb t—
slitsilock, having always till rat fa • t 4 water, wrath' arettniulate the
canal vowels which might pato up and down in regutar succession
through the locks, which would I/.. rotocnicted at the north-mst
angle., along the litfore.mentionril White
If constructid in the mant.t•r here d.,.cribeil, both the purposes Of
a canal and asylum harbour would be accomplisheel by inelosing
about 40 a.

For tht• nintorattiort of thew r.:teo.ill• Viers, the neer...two, r[C3.
rations from %%Tate I :EX great norm of lulu ti.ul ht
form the holly ado work ; a 4.01,1410n1.1c tort of this. chit'
log of a stone hanh•r trim Oils Ihrtl.u,d wow., tool it ther,!iy he.
roams ativantitgtin,s drat sit much can he cut &Tray within so short
• distance.

To the Minted Channel..—lt has been distinctly shown in
Captain Nicholls Report, tied ut r%rellent entrance new he
at the southern an:dr Itay and the c ,trro rarity
of the Hoag, at it place c I Stolfor.l. This most
avoidably he a tide harbour, jiriet,',-.1 by Pr' pi;rs, th.•
hotorit to he est neat. il as tow 1.114.6r-30, . at a 1111.1. rai•
<Amite, below low water of a log I •-
writh tibial the titles in the Chatmel dose, ve,sels,
ai•nuthog to thew draft of water, mixt., then enter at front to!
hot" ro.ah, nod while waiting fir this, it appear. f the It. fore-
mem ioried report, that there is rood ti the ollirg, where,
in moderate weather. they sitiold is terrify wife: whilo in rough
or stormy weather, elite .%nelior to the art, and l'enarili
('that, to the north-coat, allhrd tcolls'n,rl"7l •

The pmteeting pies wutibl, front the flatness of the slum.. and
unusually great rise of tides, be vary extensiyr that is, tarh about
throe thousand fret, but they Would that inatat &haw 100 a.
Frl.lll this harbour I prop. r.e to tenet by lockagr into a Iluatirg tlttek
or basin, and from thence into the , noel, by tFr sante sort 01' ar-
rangeitien• as deurribed for liver. l'roat thin ride basin the canal
coat ir in one level pet Ot+ t.t a eoevitternitle way Knuth
Itridgeanter ; indrtvl, with the ottly tan locks tas IlLut already
beets 4cm-ritua etoulintirs lt vel ti.we menet, the T.use valley, a
distance front the allure of upwards of littern
. . .

At the Siolfortl termiaacon there is a caller and small stream,
the wihrr of which nay he colic: led. and, ii used for
lockage, or for die Ilse of the Ilo:t deck. rr securing the harbour.

F4ll'itTll IN.—F:II3I.ITE.
I. Earth-work. ineholittg .11 tong,. embmit,:ia;;. imiltlling
on tile whole of the wain bac, al,o tno litica of t•
feeders and ft tor roccrt.tir4 . - 57.., ,73i1
. .
2. :11aNttry to I.tt lA, bridges, aqueducts, ettivmmi, anti
ruservitita . . . . - 602,316
3. Tao very can totive entrnner and twilunt.hathotors,
%tilt their Unntiog Ir.sitts - - - 424,1110
1. Land, ai.d damages nod tenet', inchtling compcner-
Ilan tor mints - - - 110.140
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F1FT111.1..-1:1:NE:t tl. OIISERVATIIIrs'S.

Frnti the forrpoing ‘tatetvents it is trident that the making a canal
arat hada-tm of proper ilimete.lons is rot only pract*able, hut
that sundry eirclintstances are murk in its favour. The soil is
in g, nerd mtiarkably scitalde for hol:lhig Wllef ; the lira lime-
stone being found on the lit* is no important advantage; the en-
trance harbours turns to eon iris., -.11 that is require,' for the objects
hail in view ; and the distribution of the canal lever, whether we
regald the exte...sive lower LAO% or that upon the tumoral, arc
very suitable for tie porpo...es of the country throng!. which the
rand passes, sidle all the hibernate.* width Is calculated on may
he amply suppbed a ith water; therefore, u far as civil engineering
is concerned, it in quite evident that n ship canal between the Eng-
Its!. and Bristol ('boon's is very prnetierthle.
. . . .

From the magnitude of the canal and harbour works, the ex.
prose iv unavoidably very considerable, hut as al/ expenditure is
to be compared with the benctits and revenue to be derived from the
improvement, if we ore to judge from the data which have with
much tare been eullerted and affrtngt.l by Captain Nicholls, even
this expenditure oh' 1712,114 I/. bt folly justified by the annual in.
come of 130,71114. whirl, may lw expected upon the cont.
pletion of this now line of communication.
!laving in niv reit 11l inary Report stated that the harbour of
Watt-hest had faciliti”n which juutihed an investigation of its merits,
and of a line of Canal to be tonnetted therewith, I consider it pro.
per to state, that a trial surrey was made, the result of which was,
that a ritig"of i:011 feet higher than the Chard summit, inter-
venes between the Tone valley and that of the valley which fermi.
plates upon IVatchat, which evidently renders that line quite im-
practicable. THOS. TELFtiIiD.
Loudon, 14th December,