INLAND NAVIGATION.

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Coventry and Oxford Canals, from the Grand Trunk of the Trent andMersey Canal at Fradley Heaths into the River Thames at Oxford .—Extent and Course of the Canal through the Counties of Stafford , M^ar-wick , and Oxford—Its Widths Depths Rife , and Falls of Water .—-Extracts from the different Acts faffed for making this Canal—Its ge~7ieral Utility to Trade , Manufallures , and Commerce.—Birmingham andFazeley Canal, which joins the former Canal.—Ext rall of the Alls ofParliament for consolidating the Proprietors into one Company. — Aque-duEl at Fazeley.—Collateral Cuts from Birmingham to Digbeth andthe Coal Mines.—Canal cut from near Newcastle under Line to Frog -hall, and Caldenloe Coal Mines and Lime-stone Quarries.—StroudwaterCanal to the Severn.—Droitwich Canal.—Account of the Thamesand Severn Navigation , and the function of those Rivers by Meansof a Canal from Lechlade to Stroud.—Short Ex trail from the Allsobtained for making this ‘JunElion.—A Canal to join the Thames andSevern projected in the Reign of Charles II.—Extensive Trade carriedon by this and the Coventry and Oxford Canals .

COVENTRY CANAL TO OXFORD.

A MEETING was held at Banbury on the 3d of October 1768,and also again on the 25th of the same month, to take into con-sideration proposals for making a canal from the city of Coventry intothe river Thames at the city of Oxford; which meeting was attended bya great number of noblemen, gentlemen, land-owners, merchants, and

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