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Rh divide the whole of their profits: the tonnage rates are also altered, and the following are what the proprietors are now empowered to collect.

TONNAGE RATES.
And so in proportion for any less Weight or Distance.

Fractions to be taken as for a Quarter of a Mile, and as for a Quarter of a Ton.

The new tonnage rates above-recited came into operation for the whole line of navigation on the 1st day of June, 1825. The gross receipts of this work amount to about £40,000 per annum.

The cut authorized to be made by the last act, is nearly one mile and three-eighths in length, with a rise of 100½ feet. It commences in the Salterhebble Basin, and proceeds up the valley to the east side of the town of Halifax, where there are convenient wharfs and basins for the accommodation of the trade. The water for supplying it is procured by means of a drift eleven hundred and seventy yards in length, from the basin of the canal, at Salterhebble, to a pit beyond the uppermost lock, from which it is raised by a powerful steam engine, into the head level. This novel and expensive mode of procuring the lockage water was resorted to by Mr. Bradley, the company's engineer, for the purpose of avoiding disputes with the numerous mill owners on the line of the Hebble Brook, below Halifax.

CALEDONIAN CANAL.
43 George III Cap. 102, Royal Assent 27th July, 1803.

44 George III. Cap. 62, Royal Assent 29th June, 1804.

6 George IV. Cap. 15, Royal Assent 31st March, 1825.

THIS canal, or rather series of canals and navigable lochs, forms one of the most magnificent inland navigations in the world; and its execution has been justly accounted one of the brightest examples of what the skill and perseverance of our engineers can accomplish. It commences at the Corpach Basin, in the tideway of Loch Eil, at the north end of Linnhe Loch, near Fort William, and