This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... continued eight miles through a rugged country, to Loch Eil, which communicates with that great arm of the sea, called Linnhe Loch, in Argylesbire, opposite to Fort CALEDOSflAN CANAL. 215 William and Gordonsburgh. In this section of the Canal there are a number of aqueducts; in the last mile there are no less than ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ... continued eight miles through a rugged country, to Loch Eil, which communicates with that great arm of the sea, called Linnhe Loch, in Argylesbire, opposite to Fort CALEDOSflAN CANAL. 215 William and Gordonsburgh. In this section of the Canal there are a number of aqueducts; in the last mile there are no less than eight connected locks, raising the level of the Canal sixty-four feet. This stupendous piece of masonry has acquired the appellation of Neptune's Staircase. Near to the opening of the Canal into Loch Eil, there are two connected locks, which raise the level fifteen feet, besides the sea-lock, excavated from the rock, to afford a depth of twenty feet at high water of ordinary neap-tides. This part of the Canal has lately undergone a thorough repair. At this opening there is the excellent roadstead of Corpach (the plain or haugh of corpses), where it is said the bodies of departed kings and nobles were embarked, in former times, for interment in the sacred island of Iona. From Corpach, the lake opens gradually to the width of ten miles, into the usual track of the shipping from the Orkneys and Cape Wrath. Steam-boats have also been established for the navigation of the Canal. The commissioners have fixed the rate of tonnage at a farthing per ton each mile; and that of steam-boats, carrying only passengers, and parcels not exceeding 56 lbs. in weight, at 10s. each boat for the whole navigation. Vessels of great burden sail through the Canal. A spectacle more gratifying and magnificent can scarcely be imagined, than that of stately ships, which a day before had been "breasting the lofty surges" of the ocean, gliding in security over the bosom of placid lakes, under the brow of lofty mountains and the shade of forests, within the hearing of ...
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