ig4 Mr. Farcy's Account of the UIccth 



in or near to Derbyshire, the Navigation from WiUlen- 

 Ferry up lo Burton Bruige, whidi was niatie bv the Earl ot 

 U.xbridff, in pursiMiice of the Acts of the 10th aiul 1 llh 

 ofWilhani III., having been discontinued in the year 1805, 

 in consequence of an agreement with Hugh Henshall and 

 Co. the Proprietors (jf the Trent and Mersey Canal, which 

 runs by us side (see Sect. 3, of Chap. XVI.*); and the Na- 

 vicration on the Derwent River, from Wilden-Ferry up to 

 Derby, having been discontinued since 1794, when the 

 Deiby Canals were finished. From this five miles of Na- 

 vigation en the Trent River, the Loughborough Naviga- 

 tion, by the side of the Soar, branches to the south, and 

 the Erfcvvash Canal on the north, nearly opposite to each 

 other. 



The Dtrivevt is the principal River of Derbyshire, col- 

 lectinc the whole of its waters from the surface of this 

 County, except from about 3000 Acres in Yorkshire, near 

 its source on the east side, and from 12,000 Acres in Not- 

 tinghamshire, at one of the heads of the Araber branch to 

 this River. 



The smaller Rivers or branches to the Derwc«t on its 

 east side, are the Boolle and the Amber, and on its west 

 side the Mor'tdge, Eccleshurv, Bradford and Lathkil, 

 Wye, Noe, and Asliop, besides smaller Brooks and Rivulets, 

 which are reckoned with the Derwent itself, and the whole 

 space which these occupy, including the 17,000 Acres 

 above mentioned, is ^88,500 Acres of surface, draining to 

 and venting its waters into the Trent at Wilden-Ferry, 

 above mentioned. 



The course of the Deruent from Wiklen-Ferry up to the 

 great Derbyshire Faullf E of AUestry (see p. 14(3), is very 

 widely excavated in the Red Marl Strata, and partially filled 

 again with sandy Quartz Gravel, mixed with thin and light 

 Bolders of Limestone, particularly in the upper part of this 

 distance: the present channel of the River closely ap- 

 proaches the steep bank of Red Marl at Burrowabh Mills, 

 and again for some distance from the north end of Derby 

 Town to Darley-Abbey. For about a mile, between the 

 Fault above mentioned and the great zigzag Fault J SE of 



* [This refers to the Second Volume fit" it can be brought into that space) 

 of the Report, on which I understand the Author to have been so long and 

 assiduously engaged, and which is now in great forwardness; and wiiich t 

 doubt not, v/ill prove when published, as deeply intere^ting to the Agricul- 

 turist and political Q.cononiist, as the present one, contaminsj only iht Jast 

 iJhapter, promises to be to the Mineralogist and Geolupist. — Edi tor. J 



+ [See page L'9, and plate I. of my present volume. — Editor ] 



\ [See pages 31 ajjd 32, and plate I.— Ibid.] 



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