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 therein to be made to parliament, but no toll-gate is to be erected between the two bridges at Hythe, nor on that part of the road opposite to Appledore, on the towing-path side lying between the River Wall and Appledore Bridge, being the road from Romney to Tenterden. No tolls are to be paid by the owners or occupiers of lands, if they use them only for carrying manure or produce.

The line of this canal is but little elevated above the sea, running near the boundary of Romney Marsh for a considerable distance; the length, from commencement near Hythe to termination near Cliff End, is near thirty miles; it was executed under the direction of government, and is well calculated for the warlike no less than for the commercial purposes of the country.

RUMNEY RAILWAY.
6 George IV. Cap. 62. Royal Assent 20th May. 1825.

THIS railway commences at the Sirhowey Railroad, Pye Corner, in the parish of Bassaleg, and about two miles and a half west from the market town of Newport. It takes a westerly course, running nearly a mile on the western bank of the River Ebbw, thence by the village of Machin to the northern bank of the River Rumney, along which it runs by Bedwas to Trehir, where the river changes for a course directly north, and along the eastern bank of which the railroad runs to Gellyhave Colliery, from whence is a branch railroad communicating with the Sirhowey Railroad to the east, and at the distance only of a mile and a half. From the last-mentioned place it continues to follow the course of the Rumney River by Pont Aberbangoed, near Bedwelty, to Rumney Iron Forges, where it terminates.

The railroad is divided into three planes; the first of which, commencing at Pye Corner, is two miles and three furlongs in length, and rises 114 feet, being but one-third of an inch in the yard; the next plane is ten miles, six furlongs and eight chains in length to Gellyhave Colliery, and rises 209 feet or one eighth of an inch per yard; the remainder of the railway is eight miles, four furlongs and two chains in length, and rises 433