SECOND ADDENDA

TO THE

HISTORY of INLAND NAVIGATION.

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ABERDARE CANAL.

An Account of a Canal from the Glamorganfiire Canal to theVillage of Aberdare in the County os Glamorgan , with a Railroad from thence to join the Neath Canal at Abernant.f. Dadsord, Engineer. 33 Geo. III. Ch. 95.

Aberdare

Canal.

T HE canal joins the Glamorgan canal just at the forkmade by the union of the river Cynon with the riverTaff, and proceeds through a beautifully wild country, parallelwit^i the Cynon to Aberdare, a distance of seven miles and ahalf, with a rife of forty feet in the latter three miles toAberdare ; the first part is level. From Aberdare there is arail road which crosses the river Cynon at Aberdare, andtaking a westerly courl'e joins the Neath canal at Abernant,being a distance of eight miles and a half.

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