Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries by J. Stephen Jeans

PROJECTED CANALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. “Where of late the kids had cropt the grass, The monsters of the deep now take their place.” —_Ovid._ [Illustration: SKETCH OF THE PROPOSED NATIONAL CANAL.] One of the most notable features of the engineering and commercial development of to-day is the movement, elsewhere alluded to, for making ship canals with the view of converting inland towns into seaports. The Manchester Ship Canal, now well advanced towards completion, undoubtedly gave the first impulse and has since supplied the impetus to this movement. Whether the movement will proceed much farther than plans and prospectuses remains to be seen. But at the present moment the principal proposals affecting the United Kingdom are—