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between Marston Trussel, and Hothorp, and turns up by EastFarndon and Oxendon Magna, where is a small tunnel ofthirteen chains ; near here also is the reservoir for the summitlevel, supplyed by the Oxendon Brook. From Oxendon itgoes near Kelmarsh, where it passes another tunnel of forty-five chains, and proceeds by Maid well, Lamport, HangingHoughton, Brixworth, and parallel with that branch of theriver Nen, called the Northern river ; it passes Spratton, Pisford,Chapel Brampton, Kingsthorp, Dallington, and on the west sideof Northampton, joins the river Nen navigation, and the branchof the Grand Junction canal; completing a course of forty-three miles and three quarters, from Leicester to Northamp-ton, with four hundred and seven feet and a half of lockage,and passing through four tunnels. The branch to MarketHarborough, from the junction is three miles and threequarters, and is level. The lockage may be more particularlyspecified as follows, from West Bridge at Leicester, where itjoins the Soar, to near Saddington is twelve miles and threequarters, with one hundred and sixty feet rife; from thenceto near Oxendon Magna is thirteen miles and a half, andlevel; here, in one furlong is a rife of fifty feet to the summitlevel, which continues to the south side of the tunnel at Kil-marssi, near five miles ; from thence to the junction with theNorthern river at Northampton, is eleven miles and threequarters, with one hundred and ninety-seven feet and a halffall; from thence to the junction with the river Nen is threequarters of a mile, and level.

The proprietors of this undertaking are incorporated underthe name of “ The Company of Proprietors of the Leicester-Ihire and Northamptonshire Union Canal" with the necessary

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