From sea to sea : a history of the Scottish Lowland and Highland canals
The peculiar formation of the great Caledonian valley - long, deep and comparatively very narrow, and occupied by a regular chain of inland lakes and extensive arms of the sea - had long suggested the idea of a canal which by connecting the whole might afford the means of a navigable communication between the opposite sides of the island. Indeed so marked were its features in this respect, that it must have been difficult to escape the conclusion that Nature had irresistibly invited the hand of man to the completion of such an undertaking. So wrote a Victorian commentator in the 1840s in
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The Auld Mug; Reviews; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Photographs and Illustrations; 1. Nature's Invitation; 2. The Engineers; 3. The Subscribers; 4. The Navigations; 5. Passenger Services; 6. Servicing Industry; 7. Servicing Capital; 8. 'The Great Canal'; 9. 'Railway Mania'; 10. The Mid-Scotland Canal; 11. The Watershed; 12. Decline and Closure; 13. Revival; 14. The Millennium Link; 15. The Future; List of Appendices; I. Canal chronology; II. Scottish canals: dates and costs; III. Principal canal dimensions; IV. Aqueducts and alterations. v. The Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone CanalVI. Canal barges: steam and horse-power costs; VII. Number of puffers by year of building; VIII. Forth and Clyde Navigation: extracts from the Financial Accounts; IX. Forth and Clyde Canal: number of passengers, 1809-48; X. Forth and Clyde: profit ratio, passenger boats, 1809-48; XI. The Aitken 'Queen' fleet; XII. Monkland Canal: Blackhill inclined plane, number of movements, 1854-84; XIII. Union Canal: tolls earned, 1830 to 1920; XIV. Forth and Clyde and Monkland: tonnages, 1810-1925; XV. Crinan, number of ship passages, 1840 to 1925. XVI. Caledonian Canal: number of ship passages, 1825 to 1890 and 1890 to 1965XVII. Crinan Canal: profit ratio, 1820 to 1905; XVIII. Caledonian Canal: profit ratio, 1855 to 1945; XIX. Forth and Clyde: income, 1779 to 1800; XX. Forth and Clyde: income, 1810 to 1940; XXI. Forth and Clyde: profit ratios, 1800 to 1910; XXII. Forth and Clyde: income, costs and dividend, 1800-60; XXIII. Union Canal: profit and loss, 1832-45; XXIV. Union Canal: income, tonnage rates, 1837-46; XXV. Scottish Canals: tonnages 1948-61; XXVI. Millennium Link Project. XXVII. British Waterways (Scotland): profit and loss: 1999 to 2004References; Index; Copyright Page