Show STILL another important canal is talked of in Europe By it is contemplated con-templated nothing less than the i separation of England and Scotland by a waterway from the Solway Firth to the River Tyne An engineer en-gineer is at present working on the surveys and estimates are promised for early publication This canal would have a length of only eighty miles or twenty miles less than the Suez It would of course afford avery a-very convenient short cut across the country for ocean steamers Some forty years ago a scheme of the same kind was talked of I iMi |