  - Agriculture and canals, 16, 147-150
- Aire and Calder Navigation, 86, 132, 135
- Allport, Sir James, 37, 81
- Aqueducts, 124
- Association of Chambers of Commerce, 4, 5
- Barnsley Canal, 26
- Belgium, waterways in, 93-96, 97
- Birmingham Canal, 26, 37, 57-73, 120, 125
- Boats, size of, 32, 69, 130
- Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal, 26
- Brecon Canal, 45
- Bridgewater Canal, 13-15, 21, 23-24, 124
- Bridgewater, Duke of, 13-15, 23
- Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, 45
- Brindley, James, 14-15, 16, 124
- Brunner, Sir John T., 4
- Buckley, Mr R. B., 141
- Caledonian Railway Company, 50-54
- Canada, waterways in, 128-129
- Canals, earliest, in England, 13-22;
- canal mania, 16;
- passenger traffic, 18-19;
- shares and dividends, 21, 26, 27;
- tolls and charges, 23-25, 27-30;
- handicapped, 33;
- attitude towards railways, 34-38;
- Kennet and Avon, 38-45;
- Shropshire Union, 47-50;
- Forth and Clyde, 50-54;
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