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ADDITIONAL RATES GRANTED BY THIS ACT.
The same Rates for all Vessels, empty or loaded, as above, which pass the New Cut or Canal to be made at Eastwood.

Note - That if empty Vessels, which have paid the above Rate, should return laden with Lime-stone from the Parishes of Doncaster, Warmsworth, Conisbrough, or Sprotbrough, the Rate so levied shall be returned.

The two tolls of one penny each, which were levied for the purpose of keeping in repair the road from Tinsley to Sheffield, is, by an act of the 55th George III. entitled, An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from Sheffield to Tinsley, in the West Riding of the county of York, vested in the company of proprietors of the Sheffield Canal.

By an act of 33rd George III. cap. 117, for making the Stainforth and Keadby Canal, it is enacted, that all vessels which turn out of the Dun Navigation Cut, and pass down this canal, shall pay to the Dun Company the same rates as though the vessel passed through the lock near the junction.

The Dun Navigation is of the utmost importance for exporting the produce of the extensive coal and iron works which abound at its western extremity; also the vast quantity of manufactured iron goods and cutlery which is annually produced in the populous town and neighbourhood of Sheffield. The trade of Rotherham, the limestone and plaster at Sprotbrough, and other places in the line, together with the agricultural produce of the neighbourhood of Doncaster, constitute a considerable branch of traffic on this navigation. The imports consist of every article requisite for the supply of an extensive, populous, and manufacturing district.

EDEN RIVER.
8 George I. Cap. 14, Royal Assent 12th February, 1721.

THIS river rises near Pendragon Castle, in Westmoreland, and among that range of hills on which Shunnor Fell stands conspicuous, at an elevation of 2,329 feet above the level of the sea. Its