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into execution, and the preamble states: “ Whereas the making andmaintaining a navigable canal for boats, &c. from Kirkby Kendal,&c. &c. will not only be of considerable advantage to the lands andestates in the neighbourhood thereof, by making communications fromthe extensive mines of coal at the southern extremity of the said canal,to the inexhaustible quantities of lime-stone at the northern end thereof,of both which articles all the intermediate country is greatly in want;but also by uniting the port of Lancaster with so large a tract of inlandcountry (wherein very extensive cotton and other manufactories arecarried on), very considerable advantages will be derived ; and more-over, will in other respects be of great public utility, &c. &c.” Theadvantages being so clearly pointed out, it remains only to give

The course of this canal, which is nearly due north. It begins at WestHoughton, from thence to near Wigan, along the course of the Douglasriver, by Chorley, Whittle, and near the road from Wigan to Prestonintersects the line of the Leeds and Liverpool canal; from thence crossesthe river Ribble to Preston; from whence by Spital Moss it makes a bendto Sal wick, by Barton, to Gastang, where it crosses the river Wyer,and thence to Lancaster; then running by the side of the town, it crossesthe river Loyne above Skerton, to Hest, Bolton, Carnforth, by CapanwayHall, and passes Burton ; from thence by Hang-Bridge, through atunnel near Levens-Park, to Kendal. There is a collateral cut fromGale Moss by Chorley to near Duxbury; the length near three miles,and level: and another from near Borwick by Warton, to Warton Crag,two miles and a half long, and level. The feeder is one mile fromthe basin at Kendal, and is supplied from the river Mint.

Of the length, fall, &c. of this canal, the following are the particulars:From Kendal to Greenhead Farm, five miles one furlong, and level.From Greenhead Farm to near Borwick, nine miles one furlong, witha fall of sixty-five feet. From Borwick to near Preston, forty-two mileslive furlongs, and level. From thence to Clayton Green, three mileswith two hundred and twenty-two feet rife. From thence to WestHoughton, fifteen miles five furlongs, and level; making the total length

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