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summit, one thousand three hundred and twenty yards long.The title of this body is, " The Company of Proprietors of theHerefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation.” Thewidth of the canal, towing-paths, &c. is confined to fourteenyards, with a power of using all springs, &c. within three thou-sand yards, with some exceptions. The expence is estimated atseventy-five thousand pounds, with liberty to raise thirty thou-sand pounds more, if wanting.

The rates to be collected are not to exceed—

For coal, two-pence per ton per mile.

F©r dung and other manure, bricks, lime-stone, and otherstone (except block-stone), and clay, one penny per ton permile.

For corn, grain, meal, &c. (except hops and wool), fromHereford, or from Ledbury to the junction with the Severn,three shillings and six-pence per ton.

For the same goods from any other part of the canal or colla-teral cut, to the Severn, two-pence halfpenny per ton per mile.

For corn, grain, meal, block-stone, hops, wool, &c. not spe-cified, three-pence per ton per mile.

Goods passing between Hereford and Ledbury pay tonnagefor half a mile less than the actual distance.

The line of this canal will be very advantageous to thecountry through which it passes:—by it a communication will beopened for the collieries in the neighbourhood of Newent, andother tracts of land possessing large and valuable mines of coal,and with several lime-stone quarries ; and not only the vicinityof Hereford, but the interior of South Wales,'will be much bene-fited, as thereby a continued water-carriage may be had to theseveral ports of London, Bristol, Liverpool, and Hull, to thegreat improvement of the value of lands and estates in the countyof Hereford, &c.

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