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of the canal, below Offley Park, four miles five perches; from thenceto the junction of the river Sow, where the Liverpool canal joins, sixmiles; thence to Bridgford, one mile and a quarter; which makesthirty-one miles and a quarter, and one perch. To Stafford, threemiles and three perches: from Stafford to or near Wolseley-bridge,where the river Trent is crossed by the canal, six miles and a quarter ;from thence by Bifhton to Wilden Ferry, thirty-two miles ; whichmakes forty-two miles. The distances on the Liverpool canal are asfollow : From the meadow above Bridgford in Staffordshire, where itjoins the Bristol canal to Madeley Park, being the highest summit ofland in the course of the canal, near which place the canal runs bothways, north-west and south-east, is ten miles two quarters; from thenceto Barton Cross thirteen miles ; from thence to Winsford-bridge inCheshire, nine miles, one quarter, and six perches ; which makesthirty-two miles, three quarters, and six perches.

The fall westward, between Tern-bridge and the highest summit ofland in the canal course, where the water runs both ways, east andwest, which is in the valley below Offley Park, is one hundred andthirty-six feet nine inches ; from thence to Bridgford eastward, it isfifty-four feet eight inches ; from Bridgford to Stafford Mill Pool,from thence to the crossing the Trent, near Wolseley-bridge, andfrom thence to Wilden Ferry, it is one hundred and sixty feet. Be-tween Bridgford, in the Liverpool canal, and the summit in MadeleyPark, the fall is one hundred feet three inches ; and from thence tothe Weaver, which runs north-west by a west course to Winsford, it istwo hundred eighty-four feet one inch.

It is not material here to enumerate at length the distances and fallsof water : I shall pass them over, and proceed to observations of moreimportance. The reader must here observe, that the high summit ofland between Offley Park and Cockmere Brook, being a distance of amile and half, is an elevation of twenty-five feet, into which I propose

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