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ihr NC almost without fresh supplies, of Cora
this day, very few sales are made ; Wheat is oh..
served at unaltered prices ; Batley and Malt go
of dull, and in Beans and Pease earce any thing
doing ; Oats, from the few samples, have more
free sale; there is plenty of Flour, at variance of
little consequence ; the Currency as beneath.
Mica!
44' a "
,OS a Os oct Tick Beans - .14$ a 2gs od
Fine ditto . 575 405 OA Oats . . to a a 7.4.1;
Harley - zos a 245 od Poland ditto 215 a 22s (id
Harley - . os - a 44; 01 Rape Seed . . 311 4 341
Pre - . s2s a 3i,i cd Fine Flour . 43s J. 47, od
Whita Pease, 335 a 442 id= Secontldo . . 39s a 43$
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RICH WHEEL.

One of
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And two days of the present Lottery to draw. Tic,,
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Monday' and Thursday (being the days appointed
for the drawing), at the Old State Lottery Ogice
St/ FT and CO. NO4 1

EXTRACTS FROM

MR.. TELFORD'S SURVF's; AND REPORT OF THE
COASTS AND C ENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF—SCOT—
LAND;

Made by Carl ,and of the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury,
in 1822 ; Alia ii,;vc laid before the House of COnunotis.

THE CALEDONIAN CANAL.

I PASSED ~00nit the %Ahune line of this Canal,
6.1 ts, froie 1,•v,-reess on the East, to Fort Wil-
li:On on lb: Coa,,t. I took much pains to ex.
atnir-'into the nature of the Navigation of the
Lochs, their Soundings and anchoring Places. For
this purpose I at plied chiefly to Mr. GwYNN, who
has t:;m:nitinieti the Loch Ness Galley in Government
Service 36 years ; from him I obtained a very full
and sathfattory account .of Loch Ness ; he also took
thr,Souodings of Loch Oich, and a part of Loch
Lochy for me.
From him I learnt, that Lochness is 22 miles in
length, and from one to two and a half miles in'
breadth ; that ids extreme depth is 13.5 fathoms,
and generally 15 to to very near the shores; that
there are six anchoring places on the north, and
ft.-or on the south side, and that at each end of the
Loch.there is good Anchorage in front 3 to 5, 8 and
ro fathom water.
That a Vessel .passing from the west to the east
end before a westerly wind, or in a contrary -dime.
tiotbtfr.;re an easterly wind, .has nothing to do but
• run before the wind the whole way, which she
would do in from three to five hours, and with. con.
trary winds in moderate weather she would Work it
in fr-m 24. to 36 bours.
Th;:t the easterly winds generally prevail from
March till the end of September, when the westerly
winds set in and continue for the rest of the year.
The Soundings be took in Loch Lochy arc from
seven.tri sixty-eight fathoms, with bold shores and
good
In Loch ()notch which is a short Loch on the
summit level, there are some shallow parts, but
they may he inaiie sufficiently deep.
I next proceeded to examine the supplies of Wa-
ter which are on the summit level,' and for this pur-
ce,se I pAised up the Valley of Glengarry to Loch
Hour', at the hack of Skye. 'ln this valley I
found Loch Garry, which appears to be upwards of
five miles in length, and from half a mile to one
mile in breadth ; towards the head of the Valley is
Loch Quoich, which appears to be upwards of eight
miles in length, and from one to two miles' in
Veadih.; these natural Reservoirs, placed in an ex-
tensive Valley and a rainy Country, form an abun-
dant provision for every purpose to which Water
can be applied in" the course of the Cat)al.
Having ascertained these points, I passed by a
very rocky and precipitous track, down to the head
of Loch Hoorn ; front Loch Hourn I travelled by
a track scarcely less rugged, to the top of Glen.
Elg, and over the steep mountain of Raatachan to
the top of Loch Dutch ; from thence I travelled
along the vestiges of a military road, up Glen Shiel,
clown a part of Gienmoriston, and over asrugged
in.Nintain to Fort Augustus. In Glenmoriston
and Glengarry it is possible to make roads, if ju.

. cliciously Ltid our, up:in an easy ascent ; but the
idea of water conveyance through them between
theCaldooian Canal and the Fishing Lochs, is al-
-- unadvisable.
My next object was to examine the Country
which lies between the top of Loch Eil and Loch
Stile!, in order to find whether a water conveyance
could be made at a moderate expence from Loch
Eil through Loch Shiel, and so into the Fishing
Grounds to the south of Skye, without passing
doWn the Linnhe Loch, up the Sound of Mull, and
round the Point of Ardnamurchan. I carried ,a level

across the neck of land which separates Lodi Eil

from Loch Shiel ; the distance is about three miles.
I (wind the summit of the land 43 feet above high
water in Loch Eil,.and 3s feet s inches above the
level of the fresh water in Loch Sltiel. In order
to form a Canal, as • there is no water to be got on
this:summit, the ground must be cut down to tz
feet below the level of the water in Loch Shiel,
which would rn.ke 4.7 feet S inches of cutting,
and this depth .of cutting would be continued for
nearly a miler I also suspel that in this distance
rock would be rnet with. lam -therefore sorry to
say, I cannot advise the work being undertaken
before the nature of the groinid has been fully
proved, and the whole of Loch Shiel has been ex-
mined with great care; and as' this passage cannot
be useful unless the Caledonian Canal be 'made and
navigated from the east ; if that event should take
place there will be plenty of timit to re-examine
this point with care ; at present it ought, in my
Opinion, to be.postponed.
Having investigated all the points which fell un.
der 'my observation as a Civil Engineer, I became
extremely desirous of having the opinion of expe-
rienc.ed and well informed mercantile and seafaring
people, witheregard to the present 'navigation by
the Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, and the pro.
posed inland navigation,,by the Caledonian Canal
with the view of procuring the best possible infor:
minion on this subjea, I applied to Leith, Aber-
deen, and Peterhea•l,• on the east
_coast, and , to
Greenock, Dublin, Liverpool, and Bristol, -on the
west.

My estimate »of the expence of forming this no.
vigation is nearly 33.0,0001. and the time required
to complete it would probably be about seven years
this division would require an annual supply of

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so,cocil. ,
Upwards of thirty vessels have been wrecked on
the coast of Caithness, in the memory of Alexander
Miller of Staxigo. . .