ADDENDA.

For wharfage, goods remaining above the space of threeweeks, a reasonable allowance shall be made. Passage boatsnot to be navigated but upon terms mutually to be agreedupon.

The inexhaustible store of coal, lime, lime-stone, &c. con-tained in the bowels of the earth in the vicinity of this, andthe present lino of the Leeds and Liverpool Canals, in con-junction with the populous and manufacturing towns of Bolton,Bury, Manchester, and Liverpool, afford a good prospect ofprofit to the proprietors ; by it the goods from the eastern sea,the manufactures of Leeds, &c. will have a cheap water car-riage to the great towns on the east side of the country,and in particular to the port of Liverpool.

RENNET AND AVON CANAL.

Description of a Canal from Newbury in the County of Berks ,to the River Avon at Bath, in the County of Somerset, withBranches to Calne and Chippenham, in the Counties of Wilts--.John Rennie, Engineer . 34 Geo. III. Ch. go.

THIS canal joins the river Rennet just above Newbury,runs parallel with that river through Lord Craven’s park, andon to Rintbury, where it twice crosses the Rennet and pro-ceeding by Dunn Mill, crosses the town of Hungerford, onemile above which, it again crosses the Rennet, on the northernside of which it passes Froxsield, where it again crosses theriver to the southern side ; and a little below Great Bed winagain crosses to the northern side, and proceeds to Crofton ;

where

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Hasting denCanal.

Kennet andAvon Canal.