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About eleven o'dlock, the Committee of the Canal Company, attended by Meſſrs. Telford; Bevan, andother of the Engineers employed on the Ca- nal, and by the band of the Northawptopſhire militia, iproceeded into the tunnel, amidſt the loudest acclamations of the ſpe&ators5 the pitchy dark- neſs of the tunnel was ſhortly relieved by arumber of lambeaux and lights; but the company in general ſeemed loſt in contemplating the ſtupendous ei- forts by which this amazing arch of brick-work, about vighteen inches thick, in general; fifteen feet wide, and nineteen in height, withinfide, being of an elliptical form, 3080-yards in length, had been completed, between the 1oth of Auguſt, 1792, and the 26th of February, 18095. The height of the hill, aboye. the tunnel, being, tor a conſiderable way, full 60 feet.z for drawing up the clay and ſoil which was excavated, and letting down ah materials to different parts of the works, nineteen ſhalts or wells were lun on diffetent parts of the line, and a heading, or ſmall arch, was..run op. formed the whole length, below the preſent tunnel, with numerqus croſs= branches to draw. off the ſprings of water, which would otherwiſe have im» peded the work., 5.

Prices of Raw Hides, Hay and Straw,&c for March,1805..,

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