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 saving time rights of several individuals, of the See of Durham, and of the Corporation of Stockton.

This line of navigation commences in the Tees at Stockton Bridge; it makes a very considerable bend below this point, being indeed almost in a circle; it is also crossed by the Stockton and Darlington Railroad, parallel with which road the new cut is made from near the crossing to its opening into the Tees Mouth.

The work is one of great utility for vessels trading to this part of the country; and since the Darlington Railroad was carried to Stockton, vessels are enabled to take coal from hence for the London market; and when the railway is extended, by the suspension bridge across the Tees, to the proposed docks, this trade will be considerably increased.

THAMES RIVER.
THIS noble river, the most important in a commercial point of view of any in the world, has one of its sources at a place called The Head of the Isis, or Thames, near the road running from Cirencester to Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester, whence, under the name of the Isis, it flows to Latton, near Cricklade, where it is joined by another branch, whose source is about three miles from Cheltenham; thence passing Cricklade, where it is joined by another branch from the foot of Cleeve Hill, it runs easterly to Lechlade, at which place it becomes navigable, and