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'XX. Bcpurt on a vew ,Naingalle Canal proposed to he cut 

 from Okaluwi to Stamjord^ and from ilience to llwToLvn of 

 Boston, i?y Thomas Tkifobd, Esq, 



JL HE gcnllcnien of Lincoln and Rutland having for some 

 time been turning their attention to the diseuvery ol the 

 best means for extending and iniproving the benefits al- 

 ready resulting from, inland navigation, in such a manner 

 that the greatest local advantages to the town of Stamford 

 niay be imitcd \v;itb the general increase of the agricultural 

 and commercial prosperity of a large district of surround- 

 ing country, and having employed Mr. Tel lord to take a 

 view of the dilferent lines (;F country embraced by their 

 plan^ have received the following 



RLrORT. 



*' Having, in compliance with the directions of the 

 committee, carefully exan}ined the districts of country, ex- 

 leiiding from Stamford westwardly to Okeham, and east- 

 warciiy to Peterborough, Spalding, the Foss Dyke, and 

 Boston j — I shall slate my ideas with regard to the sundry 

 lines of inland navigation, which appear best calculated 

 to promote the most perfect intercourse, and, consequently, 

 the general prosperity of the country. 



" The whole of Leicestershire being already intersected 

 from north to gouth by an inland navigation, and also 

 from west to east by a line of canal, passing by Melton 

 Mowbray to Okeham in Rutlandshire j there now only 

 remains to be considered and determined, the most ad- 

 viscable mode of proceeding from the last point, eastwardly, 

 to the ports situated upon the great bay or inlet, called the 

 ^Vash ; and thereby opening a direct and commodious 

 communication with a point on the east coast, nearly cen- 

 trical between the Trent and the Thames. 



" The town of Okeham, at which the last- mentioned 

 canal terminates, being situated upon the summit of the 

 ridce of land which occupies this part of the country, 

 ani from which the adjacent streams have their course to 

 the river Welland, aflbrds an opportunity of choosing a 

 line of canal, either dowy the river Wash, or Gnash, which 

 falls into the river Welland, about a mile and a half below 

 Stamford bridge ; or down the river Chater, which unites 

 Avilh the Welland about two miles and a half above Stam- 

 ford. 



^* Th& river Wash, occupving the valley nearest to 



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