HISTORY OF

Llb

To compare the expence, suppose the towing labourcomes to eighteen pence a day per man for twelve hourswork, the expence of two men for nine hours fortyminutes fifty seconds, in making a complete trip and re-

trip in the forty ton barge, only- --

The ten ton boat, to make the fame trip and retrip, willrequire, on account of the working the cranes, two men’slabour for twenty-eight hours twenty-two minutes fiftyseconds, which comes to seven shillings one penny pertrip and retrip, and according to the fame rate forty tons

for the labour of freight only come to -

The difference, being an extra charge by the crane ornew scheme navigation for forty tons freight in everycomplete voyage up and down the navigation -

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184

160

From this calculation it plainly appears, that the new scheme has adisadvantage of nearly 1115 1. per cent. and the same disadvantage willproportionably arise on any other extent of navigation. Hence it isevident, that the judgment of the legislature was right in vesting as itdid all the advantage of an invention, which might not seem to them tocarry that same prospect of utility, as it did to the proprietors of themachine navigation on the river Stroud.

DROITWICH CANAL.

An Account of Droitwich Canal into the Severn.

THE course of this canal begins in the town of Droitwich, andcounty of Worcester, and near Appletree Hill, whence it proceeds toBryer’s Mill, and over Falfham-Pill Brook to Salwarp, over MartinBrook by Hill End, through Ladywood, over Atterburn Brook, byJacob’s Ladder and Hawfordrough to Hill Top, and cross the roadfrom Kidderminster to Worcester, by Hawford House into the riverSevern, near the place where the little river Salwarp joins the Severn,

being