Leisure use of canals

Canals, however important a step they may have formed in the progress of intercommunication, will probably in future be seldom resorted to, with the exception of ship canals communicating with the sea. Many of them in the hilly countries form beautiful ribands of water, admirably adapted for supplying foregrounds to villas. Canals of this description we should be sorry to see destroyed; and all of them, we trust, may long be found useful for local and agricultural purposes, if for no other.