- CRINAN CANAL
- a canal for vessels of light burden, 9 m. long, from Loch Fyne, in Argyllshire, constructed to avoid sailing round the Mull of Kintyre, thereby saving a distance of 115 m.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
CRINAN CANAL
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