Show I Of OC all aU thc the schemes put forward to help tho the unemployed ono one of the tho most alluring al a- a luring is the proposal b by the Glasgow corporation to construct at a n cost of a great battleship canal between tho the Forth and tho the Clyde e. e and thus to link up tho the North sea with the thc Atlantic A modest e canal joining the I Forth and the CI Clyde c already exists and andI I it form formed d in tho the mid Victorian period I one of tIme the wonders of tho British isles It is forty miles long lonh with a rise of feet When the tho railways began to dominate the country it was prophesied that no more mort canals would be necessary but the prophets f forgot that it would always alwa's ships ship to have haye their e pa pay passage shortened antI and since sinco that prophecy was ras made many ship canals havo have come into I existence |