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Title: Scottish canals and waterways, comprising State canals, railway-owned canals and present day ship canal schemes
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Pratt, Edwin A., 1854-1922
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Publisher: London, Selwyn
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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oats. The currents off the Mull wereexceedingly strong and there was a lack of harbours in which vessels couldtake shelter in stormy weather. Disasters involving the loss of ships andcrews were consequently of frequent occurrence. Then the winds thatwere favourable in one direction became unfavourable immediately thesailing-ships had doubled the headland and required to go in the oppositedirection. Should the further dangers due to these conditions be over-come, vessels might still encounter much difficulty and experience pro-longed delays. Instances were known of sailing-ships taking three weeks ^ How Bruce crossed the isthmus is thus described by Sir Walter Scott in his Lordof the Isles : — Ever the breeze blows merrily,But the galley ploughs no more the sea.Lest rounding wild Cantire they meetThe southern foemens watchful fleet. They held unwonted way ;Up Tarberts western lake they boreThen dragged the bark the isthmus oer.As far as Kilmaconnels shore, Upon the eastern bay. 49 £
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The Crinan Canal. A sheltered passage through the Crinan Canal, for vessels adapted to its limited pro-portions, effects a saving in distance of eighty-five miles between the Clyde and the WesternHighlands as compared with the exposed royage round the Mull of Kintyre. 60 THE CRINAN CANAL. 51 to make the voyage between the Clyde and one of the ports in the High-lands or the Western Islands, All these things were to the prejudice of the shipping, the fisheriesand the people living on the west coast, who were more or less cut offfrom communication with the towns on the River Clyde, and, in conse-quence, lived a life of isolation and impoverishment. The only remedy for conditions such as these was to be found in theprovision of a waterway communication across the isthmus separatingthe two lochs at the northern end of the peninsula, thus enabling thefishing boats, and, also, the small sailing-vessels which then did all the seatransport trade of the Highlands and the Western Islands, alike

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