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Rh Cut, which cut runs parallel with the old river, and on its northern bank, for the length of a mile, where it locks down into the river at Eastwood; but, instead of this, a new canal is to be continued from Eastwood, along the north side of the river, to near Aldwark Mill, which is in length twelve hundred and twenty yards; the river from hence becomes the course of the navigation for a short distance, where another cut, of three hundred and seventy yards in length, is intended to be made, for the twofold purpose of avoiding a considerable bend in the river, and passing the mill; the Old Aldwark Cut will consequently be abandoned. From the east end of the intended cut at Aldwark, the navigation is continued for two miles in the old bed of the Dun; it then enters the Kilnhurst Cut, along which, and through Swinton and Mexbrough Cuts, it continues on the north side of the river, to near Mexbrough Church, where it again locks down into the Dun; but the canal is to be extended to the river, near the west end of the Denaby Cut, where the navigation is to be continued along the old line of the river as a canal, while a new channel, three hundred and sixty yards in length, is to be excavated for the river, between the present course and Denaby Cut. From the Dun, at Bull Green, a little above the east end of the last-mentioned old cut, a new canal is intended to be made along the north bank of the river, to a bend about a furlong west of the place where the Dearne River falls into the Dun. The length of the new cuts, from Mexbrough Church to the last-mentioned place, are two thousand two hundred and twenty yards. Hence the navigation is continued along the river, about half a furlong beyond the junction with the Dearne, to a place in the river called the Devil's Elbow, where a new river channel, one hundred and thirty yards in length, is to be opened. Hence the river is continued as the navigation to within half a furlong of Conisbrough Cut, which is to be abandoned, and a new canal, in lieu thereof, four hundred and forty yards in length, is intended to be made on the north side of the river and cut; from the end of which, the navigation continues in the river to near Sprotbrough Mills; but to pass which there is an old cut three furlongs in length. From Sprotbrough Cut, the navigation makes a considerable detour by Sprotbrough Hall, (the seat of Sir John Copley, Bart.) towards Balby, and by Hexthorpe and Newton, to Doncaster.