OTHER RIVERS. Area. Length. Miles. Miles. Witham 1,079 40 Welland 760 42 Nene 1,077 100 Great Ouse 2,667 143 Wissey, or Stoke 243 28 Nar, or Setchy 131 25 Many of the above rivers are not navigable for vessels of any size, and are therefore not of much value to the transportation resources of the country. In the majority of cases, also, the character of the waterways, as regards locality, water-supply, &c., would not justify any large expenditure in adapting them for purposes of transport. FOOTNOTES: [29] A.D. 1661, Anno. 14 Car. Reg. ii. [30] 7 and 8 Gul. III. [31] Papers relating to the History and Navigation of the Rivers Wye and Lug. By John Lloyd, junr. [32] Andrew Yarranton was born in the parish of Astley, Worcestershire, in the year 1616. He wrote a work which is well known to economists, entitled ‘England’s Improvement by Land and Sea, or How to beat the Dutch without Fighting,’ describing observations that he had made during his travels in Holland, Saxony, and other countries. [33] Smiles states that Yarranton was offered 250_l._ and eight salt vats at Upwich, valued at 80_l._ per annum, with three quarters of a vat in Northwich for 21 years, in payment for the work. It is interesting to compare these terms with those on which some of our modern streams have been deepened and improved. [34] Yarranton’s ‘Improvement by Land and Sea.’ [35] ‘Industrial Biography,’ by S. Smiles, p. 65. [36] ‘Britannia,’ Holland’s Translation, 1637. [37] Address of the President of Section G, British Association Meeting at Dublin, 1878. [38] Paper on “River Control and Management,” by J. C. Hawkshaw, ‘British Association Report for 1878.’ [39] The following figures give the tonnage of the entrances and clearances in the foreign trade (including British possessions) of the principal rivers in 1888:— ─────────────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬─────────── River. │ Entrances. │ Clearances. │ Total. ─────────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼─────────── │ tons │ tons │ tons The Thames │ 7,471,000 │ 5,471,000 │ 12,942,000 ” Mersey │ 5,368,000 │ 4,941,000 │ 10,309,000 ” Clyde (Glasgow only) │ 994,000 │ 1,154,000 │ 2,148,000 ” Tyne │ 2,818,000 │ 4,392,000 │ 7,210,000 ” Tees (Middlesbro’ only) │ 681,000 │ 555,000 │ 1,236,000 ” Humber │ 1,897,000 │ 1,503,000 │ 3,400,000 ─────────────────────────────┴────────────┴─────────────┴─────────── CHAPTER III. THE ENGLISH CANAL SYSTEM.