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SCHEDULE OR TABLE OF TOLLS CONTINUED.
All Goods not herein specified to pay Two Shillings and Sixpence per Ton of Twenty Hundred Weight, or Measurement of Forty solid Feet. All empty Packages to pay One Penny each. No single Package, full or empty, to pay less than Two-pence.

It is to be understood, that the payment of the above tolls does not free the owners of vessels from the petty customs and town dues payable to the corporation, in respect of all goods entering the port of Exeter.

Some idea may be formed of the traffic on this navigation, by stating, that in the year 1824, sixty-nine British and five Foreign vessels entered the port of Exeter.

It may here be remarked, that several attempts have been made to extend the navigation from Exeter; one in 1769,, when Mr. John Brindley designed a canal to commence at that city, thence by the towns of Tiverton, Wellington, Taunton, and Glastonbury, to the Bristol Channel at Uphill Bay. It was to be called the Exeter and Uphill Canal; but the act was never obtained.

Another attempt was made by a company of twenty-two persons (amongst whom was Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart) to form a navigation from the Exeter Canal to the town of Crediton, by widening and deepening the Rivers Exe and Creedy, and making cuts for the purpose of passing the mill weirs, &amp;c.; an act was obtained for this purpose on the 20th June, 1801, entitled, An Act for improving and extending the Navigation of the River Exe, from the public Quay at Exeter, to the public Road adjoining Four Mills, near Crediton, in the county of Devon, by making a navigable Canal or Cuts, and deepening and widening such Parts of the Rivers Exe and Credy, as shall be necessary for that Purpose. The subscribers were incorporated by the