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ihop, with all forts of tools, ©V. The 

 other is a carpenter's (hop-, thefe are of ex- 

 cellent ufe in following the works as they 

 advance; laving all the trouble and expence 

 of repeated erections and removals. 



The works are alio carrying on by near 

 three hundred men, about two miles fur- 

 ther; barges have been carried thither by 

 land, and floated for the ufe of the work- 

 men; but both parts of the canal will foort 

 join, as the bufinefs goes on with fo much 

 fpirit. 



Another part of his Grace's deiign, and 

 which he has an act to enable*him to exe- 

 cute, is to extend a branch of his canal from 

 Sale Moor to Stockport, but not yet begun : 

 That place being a town of confiderable 

 manufacture and trade, further very confi- 

 derable benefits may reafonably be expected 

 to accrue from the encreaie of traffic on the 

 canal thereby occaiioned. This intended 

 branch is, like the reft, marked in the an- 

 nexed map, Plate XII, which delineates the 

 whole country through which the naviga- 

 tion extends. 



A, A, A. Is the Duke's navigation fi- 



nished. 



B, B, B; Ditto unfinimed. 



C, C, C.«fc>urfe of the old navigation. 



ofs the canal — The canal-doors. 

 here I mould add, that a fcheme, 

 iter than any thing ui executed, 



is 



