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and is four hundred feet higher than the level of the Thames, Grandin pretty regular descent. From Cow Roast to Two Waters, "Canal° nnear Hemel Hempsted, is near seven miles, with one hundredand twenty-feven feet fall. From thence to Langley Burybelow Kings Langley, is four miles and three quarters, andlevel, including the tunnel which is not quite half a mile.

From thence to the junction with the Thames, is near twenty -four miles, with two hundred and sixty eight feet fall; ofwhich about sixty feet is by the side of Osterly Park.

The cut to Daventry has sixty feet rife ; that to Northamp-ton has one hundred and twenty feet fall; that to Stratford hasone lock up ; and the cut to Watford is level.

The proprietors of this canal are incorporated under the titleof “ The Company of Proprietors of The Grand JunctionCanalT and have powers to construct, make, &c. the maincanal, and the several cuts before mentioned.

The ground allowed in all ordinary cafes for the canal,towing path, &c. is twenty yards; but where deep cutting,basins, warehouses, &c. are necessary, forty-sive yards may betaken. The canal not to deviate more than one hundredyards from the line laid down in the book of reference.

Land owners may become proprietors if they desire it, pro-vided one eighth part of a mile in length or more is cutthrough, taken or used, and so in proportion, one share forevery eighth part of a mile, not exceeding ten shares. Ifland owners decline, lesses may become proprietors.

The towing-path through Osterley Lands, the lands ofJohn Robinson, esq. the duke of Northumberland, and James

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