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 boats : Here, likewife, his Grace's people 

 burn charcoal. 



Advancing with the canal, we come to 

 Dunham, pairing through a lock conftruct- 

 ed upon the fame principle as the canal- 

 doors, fo often mentioned. Dunham fchool 

 is fcen upon the left ; a plain and unorna- 

 mented, but elegant front j as pleaiing, of 

 the kind, as any one I remember to have 

 feen. A little further, we came to the 

 works then executing, which are of the na- 

 ture of all in this great undertaking : The 

 canal is here carried over two roads, and 

 the river Bollam \ and a great inequality in 

 the furface of the country remedied by a 

 fyftem of locks, of which there are eight, 

 within a vaft frame-work of timbers, in 

 the diftance of about thirty yards. When 

 linimed, and the water navigated, all thefe 

 locks will be palled by a gang of barges, in 

 }eft than twenty minutes. The canal crof- 

 fes the roads and the river, on vaft arches, 

 in the fame manner as already defcribed 

 and reprefented. The activity and ipirit 

 with which the workmen carry en their bu- 

 - finefs, is very pleaiing ; carpenters, fmiths, 

 mafons, labourers, boatmen, &c. &c. are 

 all employed in great numbers, lb that the 

 works advance with great celerity. Here 

 I obferved tv/o very large barges, with a 

 houfe built in each, and a chimney in one : 

 This is a floating blackfmith's forge and 



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