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The work as far as it extends is useful, and answers the design for which it was projected, by supplying lime and manure, and conveying of corn and other produce of the land to Hull, Beverley, and other places.

LEWES NAVIGATION.
(SEE OUZE RIVER, SUSSEX.)

LIDBROOK AND LYDNEY RAILWAY.
(SEE SEVERN AND WYE RAILWAY.)

LISKEARD AND LOOE CANAL.
6 George IV. Cap. 163, Royal Assent 22nd June, 1825.

THE Liskeard and Looe Canal commences 'at Tarras Pill, and proceeds from thence in a northerly direction to the parish of Liskeard, terminating at Moorswater, 156 feet above the level of the sea. The distance which it passes over is five miles and seven furlongs, and in its course there are twenty-five locks. The estimated cost of completing the works, as made by Mr. John Edgecumbe, was £12,577, 6s. There is a short branch of about a mile in length to Sand Place.

An act for executing this canal was obtained in 1825, under the title of 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from Tarras Pill, in the parish of Duloe, in the county of Cornwall, to or near Moorswater, in the parish of Liskeard, in the said county, and for making several Roads to communicate therewith.' By this act the proprietors are incorporated as "The Liskeard and Looe Union Canal Company," and have power to cut the canal, roads and other works connected therewith, to take water from the River Looe and Crylla Rivulet, and to use part of the latter as a feeder, under certain restrictions; and that no injury may be done to the navigation of the Fowey, of which river the Crylla is a tributary stream, two engineers are to be appointed, one by the company, the other by the Mayor and Corporation of Lostwithiel, to inspect the same. The company are also