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been said the inclined plane on the Ketley canal was on a smallscale, those on this canal are sufficiently large to justify a moregeneral adoption of an invention so useful and economical.

There is a branch or collateral cut from this canal, at South-well Bank, near Strichley, which goes by Dawley and Lightmoore,to the head of Coalbrooke Dale. From the termination, the car-goes are lowered through perpendicular tunnels or ffiafts ten feetdiameter, and one hundred and twenty feet deep, to the rail-waysbelow, which lead to Coalbrooke Dale iron-works, and the riverSevern at Load Croft, and other wharfs in that neighbourhood :also, from the iron-works at Horse Hay, there is a rail-waywhich communicates with this canal.

The proprietors of this canal are incorporated under thetitle of " The Company of Proprietors of the Shropffiire Naviga-tion and are allowed the following tonnage :

For iron, iron-stone, coal, stones, timber, goods, merchandise,&c. two-pence per ton per mile.

The boats carry about eight tons.

This canal, with its connections, is particularly useful in con-veying the raw materials to the many large works and furnacesin the vicinity, and for conveying their manufactured articlesto the several wharfs on its borders, and to the Severn, bywhich river they are dispersed to parts wide and distant. Thecountry is also much accommodated with merchandise in ge-neral, at a cheap tonnage. 5

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