[274] ‘Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering.’

[275] Report of the Conference on Canals and Inland Navigation, held at the Hall of the Society of Arts in 1888, p. 5.

[276] Report of the Select Committee on Canals, 1883, p. 125.

[277] Paper on “Inland Transport in the Nineteenth Century by Land and Water.”

[278] Mr. Conder on ‘Inland Transport in the Nineteenth Century by Land and by Water.’

[279] Report of the Conference on Canals and Inland Navigation, ‘Journal of the Society of Arts,’ for 1888.

[280] On the Great Western Canal, a simple lift, with two counterbalancing troughs, was used in the early part of the century, but it was not found successful.

[281] Min. Proc. I. C. E., vol. lxiii. p. 350.