feo© C A N A I/. 
on ihe weft fide of Bury, and taking a north conrfe, palfes 
Walmtley, Tottington, Hadingden, Accrington, and joins 
the l^ceds and Liverpool canal at Church ; being a conrfe 
of about thirteen miles. The rates are: For lime, lime- 
ftone, clay, bricks, (tone, or other minerals, two pence per 
ton per mile. For timber, goods, wares, &c. three-pence per 
ton per mile. For coal, clay, bricks, ftone, or any goods, 
wares, &c. which (hall not pafsany lock?, or pafs front one 
of the levels to another, three halfpence per ton per mile. 
Exemptions: fmall rubbifh or walle ftones from delves and 
quarries, all paving and other ftones, gravel, fand, timber, 
or wood, to be employed in making or repairing water- 
banks, f!uices, or trenches, upon this canal ; or of any 
public or private roads, not being turnpike-roads, in any 
townftiip, &c. through which the canal (hall go; alfo all 
dung, foil, marl, alhes of coal and turf, and otiier manure, 
(except lime,) for rite life only of the lands in any town- 
iliip, and through which the canal may pafs; fo that the 
fa ne do not pals from one level to another by means of 
any rollers, racks, inclined planes, &c. or, if locks (hall be 
tiled, unlefs the water (hall flow over the vvalie weir. 
Kekhet and Avon Canal. 
This navigation joins the river Kennet juft above New¬ 
bury, runs parallel with that river thro’ lord Craven’s park, 
and on to Kintbnry, where it twicecrolfes the Kennet, and, 
proceeding by Dun-Mill, erodes the town of Hungerford, 
one mile above w hich it again crolfes the Kennet, on the 
northern fide of which it palfes Froxfield,where it again crof- 
fes the river to the fouthern fide ; and a little below Great 
Bedwin again crolfes to the northern fide, and proceeds to 
Crofton, where are the head fprings of the Kennet ; from 
Crofton, by means of a tunnel two miles three furlongs in 
length, it palfes the high grounds about Burbage, and 
again meets the day at the village of Brimftade, whence it 
purfues its wefterly conrfe byWooton rivers, Wilcot, Stan¬ 
ton-Barnards, Allin'gton, between South-Horton and Bi- 
ihop Cannings, to the town of Devizes, on the northern fide 
of which it pafTes, and goes between the villages of Upper 
and Lower Fox hanger) by Bulkington, the village of Pax- 
croft, and the fouthern fide of Trowbridge, where it crof- 
fes the Avon at Trowle-bridge, whence winding by Lady- 
down farm, it palfes Wind brook and Bradford, below which, 
at Aincliflf-mil-ls, it crolfes the Avon, and proceeds on the 
northern fide pall Winfley, to Limpley-Stoke, where it 
prolfes to the weftern fide of the Avon, and purfues its 
conrfe uninterrupted by the fide of that river paft Bath- 
arnpton, where the complete junction with the river Avon 
is formed. The total length of this canal from Newbury 
to Bath is fixty miles, having 176 feet rife, and 369 feet fall. 
The rates are : For hay, ftraw, dung, peat, and peat-afhes, 
and for all other alhes to be ufed as manure ; chalk, clay, 
marl, and find, lime intended for manure, and all other 
articles for manure, and all materials for the repair of roads', 
one penny per ton per mile. For coals, culm, coke, cinders, 
charcoal, iron-ftone, pig-iron, iron-ore, copper-ore, lead-ore, 
lime, (except for manure,) lime-ftone, and other ftone, 
bricks and tiles, three halfpence per ton per mile. For corn 
and othergrain, flour, malt, meal,timber,bar-iron, and lead, 
(except corn and other grain, flour, malt, and meal, carried 
weft ward on Inch part of the canal as ftiall he fituate be¬ 
tween the town of Devizes and the city of Bath,) two¬ 
pence per ton per mile. For corn and other grain, flour, 
malt, and meal, which (ball be carried front the town of 
Devizes to the city of Bath, three (hillings per ton. For 
corit, grain, flour, malt, and meal, carried welhvard on the 
canal between the tovvn of Devizes and the city of Bath, 
and which (hall not pafs the whole diltance, three half¬ 
pence per ton per mile. For all other goods, wares, mer- 
chandife, &c. not particularly fpecified, two-pence half¬ 
penny per ton per mile. 
Montgomery Canal- 
This canal commences at the lime-works of Portywain, 
in the parilh of LlanyblodweU, (where it joins a branch of 
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the Ellefmere canal, from whence it palfes near the village 
of Lkmymynach, and crolfes the river Verniew, near which 
it joins-another branch of the Ellefmere canal ; it then con¬ 
tinues its conrfe by 'Gwernfelu, (where a branch goes to 
the village of Guilsfield,) to Welch-Pool; the canal then 
runs parallel with the river Severn, paft Berriew, through 
Garth-mill, to the river Severn on the eaft fide of New¬ 
town. The length, of this canal is twenty-feven miles, ex- 
clufiveof the branches, with 225 feet lockage : the branch 
to Guildsfield is three miles and a quarter, and level. By 
the junctions of this canal with the Ellefmere, a diredt 
communication is formed with Chefter and Shrewfbury. 
The rates are: For lime-ftone, one halfpenny per ton per 
mile, and fo in proportion for any lefs quantity. For coal, 
culm, and lime, two-pence farthing per ton per mile. For 
other ftone, pig-iron, bricks, timber, tiles, dates, gravel, 
land, lead-ore, iron-ore, and all other raw materials, three¬ 
pence per ton per mile. For bark, cord-wood, coke, char¬ 
coal, lead, wrought iron, baulk, and deals, three-pence 
halfpenny per ton per mile. For all other goods, wares, &c/ 
four-pence per ton per mile. 
Peak. Forest Canal. 
This joins the Afhton and Oldham canal on the fouth 
fide of ihetownof Afhton, and eroding the river Tamd, 
palfes Denton, Chad-Kirk, Mapel-chapel, and Dilley, and 
arrives at Whaley-bridge, from whence a rail road goes by 
Chapel-in-le-Frith to Load’s-Knowl in the Peak-Foreft; 
the canal from Chad-Kirk runs parallel with, and on the 
weftern fide of, the river Goyt. The length of this canal 
is about fifteen miles, and the rail-way about fix miles. The 
rates are : For lime-ftone, three halfpence per ton per 
mile. For ftone, lime, coal, and other minerals, two-pence 
per ton per mile. For dung, clay, fand, and gravel, not 
palling through any lock, one penny per ton per mile. For 
the fame palling through a lock, two-pence per ton per 
mile. For timber, goods, wares, &c. three-pence per ton 
per mile. 
Rochdale Canal. 
This canal joins the river Calder navigation at Sowerby- 
bridge-wharf, juft without the town of Halifax, and pur¬ 
fues a wefterly conrfe alongfide the river to Hebden- 
bri.dge, and thence to Todmarden ; after which, its courfe 
is to the louth, and palfes a tunnel near one mile and three 
quarters long; after which it palfes Littleborough, Roch¬ 
dale on the fouth fide, Middleton, Failfworth, and through 
the town of Manchefter, to the Caftle-field, where it joins 
the duke of Bridgewater’s canal; there is a Ihort branch of 
lefs than half a mile to Rochdale ; and another branch of 
rather more than half a mile from Failfworth to Hollin- 
wood chapel. The length of this canal is thirty-one miles 
and a half, with 613 feet lockage. The rates are : for coal, 
(tone, timber, goods, wares, &c. (except flags,) which 
dial 1 be conveyed from the Rochdale canal into the duke’s 
canal; or from the duke’s canal into the Rochdale canal, 
fourteen-pence per ton, and fo in proportion for lefs than a. 
ton. For every ton of flags, carried as above, two-pence, 
and fo in proportion. For lime, lime-ftone, dung, manure, 
clay, fand, and gravel, not palling through any lock, one 
halfpenny per ton per mile. For the fame palling through 
any locker locks, one penny per ton per mile. For.coal, 
cannel, ftone, (except lime-ftone,) and other minerals, not 
palling through any lock, one penny per ton per mile. For 
the fame palling through any lock or locks, three lialf- 
pence per ton per mile. For timber, goods, and other iner- 
chandife, not palling through any lock, three halfpence 
per ton per mile. For the fame palling through any lock 
or locks, two-pence per ton per mile. From thefe rates are 
exempted : Stones, gravel, or fand, for repairing- any pub¬ 
lic roads, in any parilh through which: the fpjd canal or 
cuts (hall he made ; alfo dung, foil, marie, alhes of coal 
and turf, or other manure; (except lime,) for the improve¬ 
ment only of the lands and grounds in any Inch parilh. 
Alfo any material which (hall be ufed in the rebuilding or - 
repairing any mill on the rivers Irk or Roach, or on the , 
river., 
