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Lords of manors or land-owners may erect wharfs, and take the following

RATES.
The act enables the company to make the canal from the River Medway at Brandbridges, through East Peckham, Yalding, Nettlestead, Brenchley, Horsmonden, Goudhurst, Marden, Staplehurst, Cranbrook, Trittenden, Biddenden, Strend Quarter, Holden, Middle Quarter, Tenterden, Ebony and Appledore, there to unite with the Royal Military Canal; also a collateral branch from Middle Quarter to Wye, in the county of Kent, with railways therefrom; and another collateral cut from Goudhurst to Hope Mill; and furthermore to make reservoirs and feeders for supplying the same with water.

This canal would open a communication from the River Thames at Gravesend, by the Thames and Medway Canal, and the River Medway, and by its junction with the Royal Military Canal, to all the places on the coast between Hythe and Winchelsea; thus avoiding the boisterous navigation round the North and South Forelands, as will be seen by reference to our map; but it has not been executed, and probably this delay arises from the restrictive clause which required a large sum to be raised before the work commenced.

WEAR RIVER.
3 Geo. I. C. - R. A. - - - - - 1716.

13 Geo. I. C. 6, R. A. 24th March, 1726.

20 Geo. II. C. 18, R. A. 17th June, 1747.

32 Geo. II. C. 64, R. A. 2nd June, 1759.

32 Geo. II. C. 65, R. A. 2nd June, 1759.

25 Geo. III. C. 26, R. A. - - - - 1785.

49 Geo. III. C. 41, R. A. 12th May, 1809.

59 Geo. III. C. 106, R. A. 21st June, 1819.

11 Geo. IV. C. 49, R. A. 29th May, 1830.

THIS river is navigable from its mouth to within a short distance of the city of Durham, whence it runs in a northerly direction, passing Finchale Abbey, and Lumley Castle, to Lambton Hall, and from thence turning to the north-east, it empties itself into the sea at Sunderland, being a distance of about eighteen miles.