ADDENDA.

The line of this canal intersects a country abounding withlime-stone and minerals, which by the Birmingham canal havea ready conveyancy to that town, and the other extremity ofthe canal falling into the Avon at Stratford, has an imme-diate water communication with the Severn and its unlimit-ed connections, to the great advantage of the proprietors ofmines on the line of this canal.

STAINFORTH AND KEADBY CANAL.

Description of a Canal from the River Dun, near Stainforth inthe Wefl Riding of Yorkfiire , to the River Trent near Keadbyin the County of Lincoln. 33 Geo. III. Ch. 117.

THIS canal commences at the river Dun, about a mile tothe west of Fistdake, and runs parallebwith the river oppositeto Thorn; whence in a line nearly due east, it passes Crow leand Keadby, where it joins the river Trent. There is abranch of about a mile across Thorn Common to a placecalled Hangman Hill which joins the river Dun. The totallength of this canal is between fourteen and fifteen miles, andrunning through a part of the fenny country has little eleva-tion, and no lockage, except out of the rivers at the extre-mities.

The proprietors of this canal are incorporated under thename of “ The Proprietors of the Stainforth and Keadby CanalNavigation,” and have the customary powers for making the. canal. The ground allowed for the canal towing-path, sidedrains, &c. is one hundred yards in breadth; a reservoir of

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