You can travel on canals to nearly every city in England. There seemed to be no way to connect the waterways in the city of Llangollen. An Engineer named Telford devised a plan to build the first all-steel Aquaduct across a ravine to connect the waterway. He did build it. It is 126 feet high. After the Aquaduct was complete he went up in the mountains near the head of the stream and redirected part of the water into a new channel that would come out into his aquaduct to connect it to the canal on down the mountain. The plan worked. It was amazing to see. I rode on the boat but I couldn't see over the side 126 feet down. Thank goodness!!
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