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Oxfordshire canal, which unites with the Coventry canal; and that, withthe Grand Trunk, will form an inland navigation from Liverpool andHull to London. Although they were soon deprived of their able engi-neer, the work was carried on with spirit, and finished with success.

The canal from Chesterfield to the river Trent at Stockwith was thelast public undertaking in which Mr. Brindley was engaged : he sur-veyed and planned the whole, and executed some miles of the navigation jwhich was successfully finished by Mr. Henshall in 1777. There werefew works of this nature projected in the kingdom, in which our engi-neer was not consulted. He was employed in particular by the city ofLondon, to survey a course for a canal from Sunning, near Reading, inBerkshire, by Monkey Island, to near Richmond ; but when applicationwas made to parliament for leave to effect their design, the bill metwith such a violent opposition from the land-owners, that it was de-feated. Those fine gentlemen would not suffer their villas to be dis-turbed by noisy boatmen, or their extensive lawns to be cut throughfor.the accommodation of trade and commerce; though it was from/ trade and commerce that most of their fine villas and extensive lawnshad derived their beauty and importance.

Mr. Brindley had for some time the direction of the Odder naviga-tion ; but he declined a farther inspection of it on account of a differ-ence of opinion among the commissioners. In the year 1766 he laidout a canal from the river Older, at Cooper s-bridge, to Hudderssieldin Yorkshire, which hath since been carried into execution. In 1768he revised the plan for the inland navigation from Leeds to Liverpool.He was also appointed the engineer for conducting the work; but themultiplicity of his other engagements obliged him to decline thisemployment. In the fame year he planned a canal from Stockton, byDarlington, to Winston in the bishoprick of Durham. Three plans offthe like kind were formed by him in 1769 ; one from Leeds to Selby,another from the Bristol channel, near Uphill in Somersetshire, to

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