The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 33
ea, or in fact niiuhl make use of it eiiher for entrance or departureus the wind and other circumstances might be favourable, The other canal was quite independent of the harbour and of the first canal. It wasprobably used for vessels going direct to Rome, or proceeding lo sea with-out slopping at… … or be prevented from communicating with it, according as circumstancesmight render such ^teps advisable. The lock does not appear to have beenthen known. The circular part of the norlheru outer mole was open, orconstructed upon arches, so as to give free access to the current, but wasat the same…
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