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A general history of inland navigation, foreign and domestic : containing a complete account of the canals already executed in England, with considerations on those projected, to which are added, practical observations / by J. Phillips
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Ellesmere

Canal.

River FossNavigation.

materially accommodated, and theiir savings must benefit theconsumers; the corn trade through the whole line, is greatand extensive.

The Worral part from Chester to the Mersey, has longbeen a favourite scheme, and now promises all the advantagesexpected; a passage boat is intended to be established betweenChester and Liverpool daily, which cannot fail of being highlybeneficial to both towns, and to the intermediate county.This part of the canal is constructed for vessels of fourteenfeet beam. The other parts for only seven feet beams.

Such activity has been used in this concern, that this part ofthe canal, and the Llanymynech branch, it is expected will benavigable In the ensuing Spring.

RIVER FOSS NAVIGATION.

Particulars of an AB for making a Navigable Communicationfrom the River Oufe, at York, to Stillington Mill, in theParifi of Stillington, in the North Riding of Yorkfiire .33 Geo. III. Ch. 99.

THIS navigation proceeds from the junction of the riverFoss with the river Oufe at York, its course is the river Fols asfar as Farlington Common, from thence by a new cut to theLordship of Marton, and from there to deepen, &c. the riverFoss to Stillington Mill. The total length is between twelveand thirteen miles.

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