Water lifted over water?

"Water lifted over water? Insane!" they said IN THE YEAR 1760, men doubted James Brindley's sanity. In his construction of the Worsley Canal, near Manchester, this engineer proposed to build an aqueduct nearly fifty feet above the River lrwell — thus performing the feat, at that time thought impossible, of "lifting water over water". Within a year he had carried his canal across the river; it was known at the time as "the eighth wonder of the world". The determination of men like Brindley is playing its part in modern Britain, in the development of our electrical resources.