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Gloucesterand BerkleyCanal.

from the six preceding months. One month’s notice to begiven to the Thames and Severn company, of such interrup-tion ; and the fame to be advertised in the Bristol and Glosternews papers, that all persons interested in the Thames andSevern canal may be informed thereof.

This undertaking for its magnitude and accommodations,deserves to be considered as of the first importance; its mag-nitude is intended for the passage of vessels of more than threehundred tons burthen; and its accommodations to commerce,by uniting the city of Gloucester, by an easy and certain watercarriage with the port of Bristol, and from thence with allthe world, may justly be deemed an object of great magni-tude to trade. The whole of this scheme evinces an extentof idea, known only in a free country; and an ardour of en-terprise, which none but an industrious and commercialpeople could endure.

By the canal the voyage may with ease be performed in oneday, whereas to get to Gloucester by the river was a work ofmany, though the distance was only ten miles more. Alkany merchant the advantages of a quick and certain convey-ance of his goods to Market ?

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