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Warwickand Braun-lton Canal.

the Grand Junction Canal, or the contrary ; or from this canalalong the Oxford Canal, to or towards the Coventry Canal,and upon no other part of the Oxford Canal.

This company guarantee that, if after the completion ofthis canal, the quantity of coals navigated on the Oxford Canal,and laid down annually at Willoughby Wharf, shall notamount to three hundred and twentv-four tons, to pay to theOxford Company, twoJhillings and nine-ficnce per ton, forevery ton short of that quantity, annually. If the OxfordCompany shall cause a reduction os rates to be made, for na-vigating to the north of Braunston, the above granted rates,&c. are to experience a similar reduction.

The amount of the above specified rates are to go to, andmake part of the sums, which the Grand Junction Companyhave guaranteed to the Oxford Company. The water of thiscanal is to be kept six inches higher, than the water of theOxford Canal.

By this canal, and those with which it is connected, an in-land water communication will be completed from Birming-ham to the metropolis, in a pretty straight line, of about onehundred and forty-two miles, the distance by the nearest landroute is about one hundred and ten miles ; when therefore allcircumstances attendant upon making canals are considered,it is not to be expected a shorter line, consistent with generalutility to the intermediate places, can be effected. Thegreat quantity of ponderous goods daily coming from Bir-mingham, and the neighbouring manufacturing towns to theLondon market, must cause this water communication with

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