ADDENDA.

Exemption from Rate. Owners and occupiers of adjoiningland, may navigate husbandry boats measuring not more thanfive feet wide, and twelve feet long, for the purpose of con-veying cattle, but not for sale, and not to pass any lock with-out leave.

The undertaking of this canal may be considered as anevidence of the advantages already derived from similar specu-lations, in this part of the kingdom; proprietors at last, areawakened to a sense of the due value of the great treasures itpossesses; and are emulous by multiplying canal navigations, tobring them to light, as well for their own prosit, as the ad-vantage of the world at large.

BARNSLEY CANAL.

An Account of a Canal from the River Calder , near Wakes eld,

to Barnsey, and Barnby Bridge, in the Wef Riding of the

County of York. 33 Geo. III. Ch. 11 o.

THIS canal joins the river Calder below the town of Wake-sield, and passes C-rofton, Felkirk, Rovston, and arrives atBarnstev, whence it makes a bend to Barnby Bridge, near thetown of Cawthorn, the length about fourteen miles. Thereare several rail ways to the canal from Barnstev, and othersfrom Barnby Bridge. The fall from the junction with theDearne and Dove canal, is one hundred and twenty feet to theriver Calder.

The proprietors are incorporated under the name of " TheCompany of the Proprietors of the Barns ey Canal Navigation,”

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Aberdare

Canai.

Barnsley

Canal.