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 which the first recited act enables them to raise, and to pay off and again borrow, when necessary, any portion of the above sums; but the company are restrained from ever increasing their debt to more than £30,000 at one time.

For the purpose of facilitating the communication between the railway and the port of Dundee, the proprietors have authority to treat with the owners of property for a branch railway, upon which, this act empowers them to demand the same tonnage rates as upon the original line.

This railway will be very important to the mountainous district of country through which it passes, affording access to the port of Dundee, which heretofore seemed quite impracticable.

DUN RIVER NAVIGATION.
12 Geo. I. C. 38, R A. 24th May, 1726.

13 Geo. 1. C. 20, R. A. 24th Apr. 1727.

8 Geo. II. C. 9, It. A. 21st Mar, 1732.

13 Geo. II. C. 11, R. A. 19th Mar. 1739.

2 Geo. IV. C. 46, R. A. 7th May, 1821.

7 Geo. IV. C. 97, R. A. 28th May, 1826.

THE River Dun has its source near Saltersbrook, in the high moorlands which separate the counties of York and Chester, and pursues an eastwardly course by Thurlstone and Peniston, whence it takes a south-eastwardly direction by Huthwaite, and near to Wortley Hall, the residence of Lord Wharncliffe; its line from hence is through a deep and romantic dale, overhung by extensive woods; thence it passes the villages of Oughtibridge and Wadsley, to the town of Sheffield, on the north-east side of which it is joined by the River Sheaf. Its course hence is north-eastwardly by the village of Attercliff to Tinsley, where this navigation commences.

In describing the line of this navigation, we shall introduce the numerous cuts and improvements which the act of 7th George IV. enables the company to make, and which are now in progress.

This navigation begins in the Dun River, near the village of Tinsley, thence by the Tinsley Cut, which was made to avoid a bend in the river, under powers of the act of 12th George I.; and, at the distance of five furlongs it locks down into the river. The Dun is here the course of the navigation to the Ickles Cut, constructed under the powers of the above-recited act, upon the north side of the river, and which is something more than three furlongs in length. The river again becomes navigable to the Rotherham