ADDENDA.

The uses of this canal are chiefly local, but shew the publicbegin to understand that water carriage, is more advantageousthan land carriage.

CHELMER AND BLACKWATER NAVIGATION.

Particulars of an AB for making a Navigable Communicationbetween the Town of Chelmsford and the River BlackWater y near Maldon. 33 Geo. III. Ch. 93. John Remiie ,Engineer.

THE intent of this Act is to render the river Chelmernavigable bv widening, deepening, &c. and making new cutswhere necessary, which is intended to be done, as far as BeelyMill near Maldon, where by means of a cut the navigationleaves the river Chelmer, and crosses into the river Black-water, and down which it goes about three quarters of a mileto Hey-bridge, from whence a new cut continues the naviga-tion about one mile and a half into the Black-water, atColliers-reach, below Maldon; there is a branch to Maldon,with a basin.

The total length of this navigation is thirteen miles fivefurlongs, in which there is preserved of the old channel nearten miles; the remainder is new cutting. The fall fromChelmsford is feventy-nine feet and a half.

The proprietors of this undertaking are incorporated underthe title of “ The Company of Proprietors of the Chelmerand Blackwater Navigations and have the customary powers

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