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pose a farmer goes ten miles for a load of tiles to Madeley, his waggonand two persons with it must be out two days, which will cost himmore than twenty shillings. If he brings back a ton of tiles, as theyseldom can y more on account of the badness of the roads to that place,he might convey the fame for one shilling and six-pence tonnage(and one shilling and lix-pence freight if he does not keep a boat of hisown); so that he saves at least fifteen shillings, allowing two shillingsper ton for land carriage from the water fide to his house. This savingis only in ten miles, and will be doubled if he lives at the distance oftwenty miles; and as he will be able to carry more tons at a load, hewill make a considerable saving from that circumstance likewise, as aboat will bring thirty tons ; so that in one day he may lay down bricksand tiles enough to build his house, and the next day may fend his boatfor a sufficient quantity of lime and other materials, instead of lin-gering and dragging out a whole summer, and perhaps some part ofthe winter, in bringing his materials by land carriage.

" I cannot omit mentioning once more the vast quantities of corn, andall sorts of grain from the counties of Stafford, Salop, and Chester, thatwill be sent to all parts along this canal, to supply home as well asforeign markets; and from these three counties bordering on or withinsix miles of the canal (being great corn countries) we may at least sup-pose fifteen thousand tons will be carried yearly twenty miles uponthis canal, which, reckoning one shilling and six-pence tonnage, andone shilling and six-pence for twenty miles on this navigation, will' amount to a very large income.

" We can, at present, scarcely imagine the quantities of differentkinds of merchandise that will come upon this canal: it is morally im-possible to state them all. For as many different articles as are nowmade use of by man, so many different and various forts of merchan-dise will be carried along this canal.

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