30 
Ascertained Levels of various Canals. 
[Aug. 
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| LEVELS OF CANALS continued. 
Above Summit 
Below Summit 
y 
of Birm. Canal 
of Birm. 
Canal 
30. Thames River. 
FEET. 
IN. 
FEET. 
IN. 
At Lechlade .... 
250 
3 
At Oxford . . , . 
289 
11 
At Abingdon and at Cuiham 
330 
11 
| At Reading .... 
387 
5 
| At Brentford .... 
4SS 
10 
31. Warwick Canal. 
i Junction at Biabeth, near Birmingham 
\ 
136 
7 
1 Summit at Bordesley and Knowle 
94 
7 
Hatton ..... 
136 
7 
Warwick, and junction of Napton Canal 
282 
7 
32. Warwick and Napton Canal. 
t 
Junction near Warwick 
! 
282 
7 
Leamington .... 
296 
7 
Summit at Napton and Oxford Canals 
149 
10 
33. Western Junction Proposed Canal. 
Aylesbury branch of Grand Junction Canal 
234 
10 
Thames at Cuiham, near Abingdon 
330 
11 
34. Wilts and Berks. 
■ 
_ 
Keuuett and Avon Canal at Semington 
363 
5 
Chippenham (a level branch) 
308 
11 
f Colne (ditto) 
292 
11 
I Summit, South Marston, and North Wilts Canal 
162 
11 
River Wantage .... 
234 
5 
Abingdon and River Thames 
. 
330 
11 
35. Worcester. 
Commencement at Birmingham—level to Tardiby . 
19 
10 
Proposed branch to Droitwich 
319 
10 
Lowesmere ana Worcester 
403 
10 
Severn at Diglis . . . 
1 
447 
10 
Branch to Droitwich ... 
383 
4 
36. Wyrley and Evrington. 
Commencement near Wolverhampton 
0 
0 
0 
0 
Junction with detached part of Coventry Canal, near Hud- 
dlesford . 
264 
10 
Brauch to Wyrley bank 
36 
--to Easington Collieries 
60 
37. Rochdale. 
Manchester—Knott Mill , 
390 
11 
Ashton Canal 
315 
4 
Failswortn .... 
134 
11 
Rochdale ..... 
14 
11 
Summit at Dean Head 
130 
Dob Roval , 
32 
11 
Tcdmorden .... 
56 
11 
Sowerby Wharf .... 
217 
11 
| River Calder .... 
227 
11 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
notes written during a late Residence 
at BUENOS AYllES, by an English 
Gentleman, formerly of Bene't Col¬ 
lege. Cambridge. 
(Continued from, No. 353, p. 3QS.J 
the corn farms, wheat, barley, 
\_jr and a little maize are grown. The 
land is, generally speaking, a rich loam 
covered with fine vegetable mould, vary¬ 
ing little in quality, except from its 
situation being more or less dry. On 
digging deep tosea. a kind of indurated 
clay, which contains lime, is found. 
The shore of the river is a fine sand, 
with here and there lumps of tosca. as 
hard as rock. 
A few miles from the town is found 
plaster 
