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—