CHAP. VII. 



<>F .MANTI1KSTKII. 



and v 

 which 



canal 



arious oilier sums, making a total of 25,OOOZ. ; 



remained owing until the year 1769, when the 



was paid off douUless from the profits of the 



tral'hV as we'll as the economised rental of the 



Duke's unbur- 

 thened estates. 



The entire 

 level length of 

 the new canal 

 from Longford 

 Bridge to the 

 upper part of 

 Runcorn, near- 

 ly twenty-eight 

 miles in extent, was 

 finished and opened for 

 traffic in the year 1767, 

 after the lapse of about 

 five years from the pass- 

 ing of the Act. The for- 

 midable flight of locks, 



THE LOCKS AT RUNCORN. 

 [By Percivai Skelton, after his original Drawing ] 



from the level part of the canal down to the waters of 

 the Mersey at Runcorn, were not finished for several 

 \\-ars later, by which time the receipts derived by the 



