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and to all parts of the intended navigation. 26. A good lime-stone.3d. A sine free-stone. 4th. Grinding stones of different forts.

Near \Volseley-bridge,and also a mile below Burton, a free-stone is foundon the banks of the river Trent, excellent for its firmness and colour:some parts of which seem not inferior to that of Portland or Rock Abbey.

A mile from Rudgley, a blazing kind of coal, called canel, and othercoals are found belonging to the earl of Uxbridge. The lower stratumof these mines is said to be a very valuable one ; and it is apprehended anavigable sough might be carried from the new canal into the heart ofthem, in the manner of the duke of Bridgewater’s colliery in Lanca-shire : and that this would lay them dry, the want of which is the pre-sent obstacle to their being worked, and at the same time convey thecoals into the new canal, to the great advantage of the noble pro-prietor, and the neighbouring country.

Near that part of the river Trent, where the canal is to terminate,arises a vast mountain of lime-stone ; on which the village of Breden inLeicestershire is situated. At Tickenhall in Derbyshire, not far fromthe last-mentioned place, there are also quarries of lime-stones; and atBarrow in Leicestershire they burn an excellent kind of lime for build-ing, which is conveyed to places at a great distance by land, everyway; and lime is much wanted through the whole course of the canal,both for the purposes of architecture and cultivation.

A few miles lower, at Clay Hill, a firm and elegant alabaster is found,proper either for stucco or sculpture.

Not many miles from the river Trent, near the river Soar, in Leices-tershire (which it is to be hoped the gentlemen in that neighbourhood,and the inhabitants of Leicester, will now be able to make navigablewithout opposition), are the noted quarries of Swithland state, a beau-

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