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This river rises among the moor-lands in the north-westpart of Staffordshire , and having received the tribute ofseveral rivulets and streams, runs to the eastward. Itbecomes navigable at Burton-upon-Trent , where it leavesf bat shire, and, flowing through Derbyshire , Nottingham shire , and Lincolnshire, discharges itself into that greatreceptacle of the northern rivers, the Humber , after acourse of nearly two hundred miles. It enters Notting hamshire at the south-west point, and being there joined bythe Erwash, passes to the eastward till it reaches Newark,where it forms an island; when, turning to the north,a fter a tract of about fourteen miles, it constitutes theboundary of that shire on the side of Lincolnshire.
The Trent is joined a little below Burton by the beautifulriver Dove, which, rising at the most northern point ofStaffordshire , forms the boundary between it and Derby shire , and joins the Trent a little below Burton . Anotherriver, the Sow, rises a few miles to the west of New-castle-under-line, and falls into the Trent on the south-east.A- canal has been formed from Chesterfield , in Derbyshire ,^hich, passing through the northern part of Nottingham shire , communicates with the Trent at a little distanceoelow Gainsborough. In its course a subterraneous tunnelbas been cut through Norwood hill, upwards of a mile anda half in extent, and so straight, that the termination atone end may be seen at the other. The arch is twelve feetb‘gh, nine feet three inches in width, and in the deepestpirt one hundred and eight feet beneath the surface of theearth. By the numerous canals formed in the north of~ n gland, a communication is now opened between therent and the Mersey, or quite across the kingdom, frome ast to west.
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