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This navigation, which is thirty miles in length, connects Norwich with the sea at Lowestoft, and will be highly advantageous to the city of Norwich, by the importation of coal, timber, and general merchandize, and the exportation of the manufactures of Norwich, with the agricultural produce of the surrounding district; and a national benefit by the shelter it will afford to shipping in tempestuous weather. It is ascertained, that, at present, more than 300,000 quarters of corn and 50,000 sacks of flour are carried, in wherries, annually down the river to Yarmouth, and 60,000 chaldrons of coal and 20,000 tons of goods up the river to Norwich.

NOTTINGHAM CANAL.
32 George III. Cap. 100, Royal Assent 8th May, 1792.

THE original plan of this work was to make a canal from the Cromford Canal to the navigable River Trent, with collateral cuts from the same to the Earl of Stamford's estate in the parish of Greasley; another from the same to the estate of Edward Willoughby, Esq. in the parish of Cossall; and a third from Leen Bridge, in the town of Nottingham, to the west end of Sneinton Hermitage.

The necessary powers for executing the canal and cuts, were given to the proprietors as "The Nottingham Canal Company," by 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal, from the Cromford Canal in the county of Nottinqham, to or near to