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The total fall from Lechlade to low-water-mark is 258 feet, which upon average is near 21½ inches per mile.

As an account of the receipts and disbursements of the commissioners of the Thames Navigation in the year 1829, was printed during the last session by order of the House of Commons, we take this opportunity of presenting our readers with a copy.

NEW WORKS, &amp;c.
The immense trade of that part of this river which comes within the design of our work, arises principally from having London situated upon its banks, to which great emporium it conveys the produce, not only of the counties through which its winding course proceeds, but of many other parts of the kingdom with which it is connected by other rivers and canals; and on the other hand, it distributes the East and West India and Continental produce, indeed, of nearly all the world; to which may be added, the numerous branches of home manufactures required by the country throughout the whole line of its communication.