19. Derby Canal. 20. Nutbrook Canal. 21. Erewash Canal. 22. Loughborough Navigation. 23. Leicester Navigation. 24. Leicestershire Union Canal. 25. Witham Navigation. 26. Witham Navigation. 27. Glen Navigation. 28. Welland Navigation. 29. Nen Navigation. 30. Wisbech Canal. 31. Nar Navigation. 32. Ouse and Tributaries (Bedfordshire). 33. North Walsham Canal. 34. Bure Navigation. 35. Blyth Navigation. 36. Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation. 37. Stour Navigation. 38. Colne Navigation. 39. Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation. 40. Roding Navigation. 41. Stort Navigation. 42. Lea Navigation. 43. Grand Junction Canal. 44. Grand Union Canal. 45. Oxford Canal. 46. Coventry Canal. 47. Warwick and Napton Canal. 48. Warwick and Birmingham Canal. 49. Birmingham and Warwick Junction Canal. 30. Worcester and Birmingham Canal. 51. Stafford and Worcester Canal. 52. Severn (Lower) Navigation. 53. Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal. 54. Lower Avon Navigation. 55. Stroudwater Canal. 56. Wye Navigation. 57. Axe Navigation. 58. Parrett Navigation. 59. Tone Navigation. 60. Wilts and Berks Canal. 61. Thames Navigation. 62. London and Hampshire Canal. 63. Wey Navigation. 64. Medway Navigation. 65. Canterbury Navigation. 66. Ouse Navigation (Sussex). 67. Adur Navigation. 68. Arun and Wey Canal. 69. Portsmouth and Arunder Canal. 70. Itchen Navigation. [To face page 54. I give, facing p. 54, a sketch which shows the nature and extent of these particular waterways, and the reader will see from it that they include entirely free and independent communication (_a_) between Birmingham and the Thames; (_b_) from the coal-fields of the Midlands and the North to London; and (_c_) between the west and east coasts, _viâ_ Liverpool, Leeds, and Goole. To say, therefore, in these circumstances, that "the whole of the inland water traffic" has been strangled by the railway companies because the canals or sections of which they "obtained command" were "so adroitly selected," is simply to say what is not true. The point here raised is not one that merely concerns the integrity of the railway companies--though in common justice to them it is only right that the truth should be made known. It really affects the whole question at issue, because, so long as public opinion is concentrated more or less on this strangulation fiction, due attention will not be given to the real causes for the decay of the canals, and undue importance will be attached to the suggestions freely made that if only the one-third of the canal mileage owned or controlled by the railway companies could be got out of their hands, the revival schemes would have a fair chance of success.