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RISE, FALL, 
Feet | Inches! Feet | Inches 
Buckingham Branch rise ...e.e-seeeeeeeeeees| 17 0 
Aylesbury Branch falls ......-.sseeeeeeseeee- 96 0 
Wendover Branch from the Tring summit, level. 
Paddington Branch, level. 
(From the Company’s clerk, per Netlam and 
Francis Giles, surveyors.) 
VI. The Grand Trunk Canal commences in the 
River Trent at Shardlow, joins the Derby Canal “ 
near Swarkstone, the detached part of the Coventry 
Canal at Fradley Heath, the Staffordshire and Wor- 
cestershire Canal at Heywood, then proceeds to 
Ewuria, and terminates in the Duke of Bridge- 
water’s Canal at Preston Brook. 
Rise from Shardlow to Etruria.............+..| S16 3 
Fall to Preston Brook ............+ He selene si 326 = 
Total........| 316 3 | 326 2 
The Uttoxeter Branch rises, to Stanley Moss ..| 75 0 
And falls to Uttoxeter’ .....eceeesecceereeees 192 10 
Total........| 75 oO 1°192 10 
(Plan belonging to the Grand Trunk Canal Com- 
pany.) 
VII. The Duke of Bridgewater’s Canal com- 
mences in the Rochdale Canal at Manchester, joins 
the Grand Trunk Canal at Preston Brook, and falls 
into the River Mersey at Runcorn. 
Fall from Preston Brook to Runcorn ........ 84 0 
Branch to Leigh, level. | 
(From Cary’s Canal Plans.) 
VILL. The Worcester Canal departs from the 
Birmingham Canal at Birmingham, connects with 
the Dudley Canal Branch at Selly Oak, the Strat- 
ford Canal at Kingsnorton, and. falls into the River 
Severn at Diglis, near Worcester. 
DAML SSh ooh sete nab. don pleivat'etee ® dette seceee 428 0 
(From the Canal Company’s clerk.) 
IX. The Stratford Canal commences in’ the Wor- 
cester Canal at Kingsnorton, joins the Warwick 
Canal by a short level branch from Kingswood, and}: 
falls into the Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon, 
Fall from Kingsnorton tothe bed of the Avon,. 338 84 
(From the clerk to the Company.) 
X. The Dudley Canal leaves the Birmingham 
Canal at Tipton Green, and falls into the Stourbridge 
@aual at Black Delph, 
