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LOUGH NEAGHJ
4 on for ages, and eminences which were once peninsulas
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and promontories are now detached from the main land,
and converted into islands. Ram ' Island, which is now
three miles" from the ‘shore, was probably formed in this
way, the channel between being very shallow. ,'
The means of remedying this’e,vil has long occupied
the attention of the ingenious and sagacious persons who
surveyed the surrounding counties ; and Mr. ’l‘ownshend,
in his Report upon the Bogs of Armagh, suggests a plan‘
both ‘practicable and efficacious: he suggests first, the
removal of the bar at Toome, which is only 15 inches,
high; secondly, the partial removal of the rock declivity‘
at Portna, where the Bann descends17 feet in the dis-
tance of half a mile: and thirdly, by diverting the river
Main into the Bann, by a new cut, above llandalstown,
where the Glanwherry river joins the Main: at the same
time deepeningithechalnnel of the Main. These altera-A
tions.wou1d leave a depthtof ten feet water in, the. Bann
for navigation, and afford an increase of 80,000 acres of '
availableland on the banks of the lake. ' i ‘
' Another object would also be attained, by confining this
body of water to more definite limits, viz. the absolute
site of its basin would remain the same, which has lately
been ascertained to vary, and the waters appear to have
inundated one region while they have retreated from
another: of this a suflicient proof is afforded by the dis:
coveryof a boat 23% feet long and six broad, under four
feet of hog, and lying beside a quay or pier: near this
place aicanal also was distinctly traced. The boat" was
of 3 the canoe’ kind, hollowedout of a solidtrunk of oak,
which must have been upwards of seven feet in diameter;
This curiosity ‘was discovered at the foot of Knocklough-
rain, aboutfour miles west of Lough Beg. M ‘
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