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thirty feet. From thence it is level near nine miles through the Kmgton

Ion? tunnel at Penfax ; from the eastern fide of which, to the T ar ! d

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junction with the Severn, being a distance of rather more than Canal,three miles, there is a fall of two hundred and seven feet. Thetotal length is rather more than forty-five miles ; and the totallockage is five hundred and forty-four feet, viz. four hundredand ninety-six feet fall, and forty-eight feet rife. On thiscanal are two tunnels ; one near Soufnant, of one thousandtwo hundred and fifty yards ; the other at Penfax, of threethousand eight hundred and fifty yards. Near Tenbury are twocollateral cuts for the accommodation of certain mills.

The proprietors of this canal are incorporated under the titleof “ The Company of Proprietors of the Leominster CanalNavigation.” The ground allowed for the canal, towing-path,

&c. is twenty-six yards, with a power of using all adventitioussprings, &c. and those within two thousand yards—certain watersexcepted. The money to be raised is one hundred and fiftythousand pounds, with a power of raising forty thousand poundsmore if necessary.

The rates allowed are—

For timber, stone, marble, lime, limestone to be burnt for ma-nure, iron-stone, raw materials, bricks, brick-tiles, state, gravel,sand, clay, manure, and rubbish, navigated between the Severnand Milton Cross, near Stanton, three-halfpence per ton permile, and from Milton Cross to Kington three-pence per ton permile.

For coke and charcoal, four-pence per ton per mile.

For all coal carried on any part of the canal between the riverRea and Leominster, or between the river Teme and Leominster,three shillings and four-pence per ton per mile.

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