DESCRIPTION of GOODS. |
RATE |
HOW CHARGED. | ||
| s. | d. | |||
Dung or Stable Manure, Coals, Cinders, Slack, Culm, and Charcoal, any sum not exceeding.
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0 | ½ | per Ton, per Mile. | |
| Pigeon Dung and Rape Dust | 0 | 1 | ditto. . . ditto. | |
| Lime, if carried up the Rivers or Cuts | 0 | ¾ | ditto. . . ditto. | |
| Ditto if carried down the same | 0 | ½ | ditto. . . ditto. | |
Pack, Sheet, or Bag of Wool, Pelts or Spetches, not exceeding 3121bs. including Sheet
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0 | 10½ | From Leeds or Wakefield to Selby or Weeland, or vice versa - and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity than a pack, Quarter, Thirty-two Pecks,or a Ton, or for any less Distance than the whole. | |
For every Quarter of Wheat, Rye, Beans, Oats, Barley and other Grain
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{Of Eight Bushels Winchester Measure.} | 0 | 6 | |
| Malt, Rape, Mustard and Linseed. | ||||
Apples, Pears, Onions and Potatoes, for every Thirty two Pecks
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0 | 9 | ||
Chalk, Fuller's-Earth, Pig-iron, Kelp, Flints, Pipe-Clay, Calais-Sand, and other Sands, (except got in the River) Stone, Bricks, Whiting, Rags and Old Ropes, Lead, Plaister, Alum, Slate, Old Iron, Tiles, Straw, Hay, and British Timber, per Ton.
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3 | 0 | ||
Fir, Timber, Deals, Battens, Pipe Staves, Foreign Oak, Mahogany and Beech Logs, per Ton
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3 | 6 | ||
| Flour, Copperas, Wood, Tallow and Ashes, per Ton. | 4 | 0 | ||
| Bad Butter or Grease, per Ton. | 4 | 3 | ||
| Soap, per Ton | 5 | 4 | ||
| Bar Iron, per Ton | 5 | 6 | ||
| Cheese, per Ton | 6 | 0 | ||
| Powder Sugar, Currants, Prunes, Brass and Copper, Argol or Tartar, per Ton | 4 | 8 | ||
| Treacle, per Ton | 5 | 9 | ||
| Madder, per Ton | 6 | 0 | ||
| Cloth Bales, and all other Goods, Wares and Merchandize, per Ton | 7 | 0 | ||
The length of the canal, from Haddlesey to Selby, is about five miles, and is level, there being one lock only, at the extremity, into the tideway of the River Ouse, at Selby. The distance from Leeds, by this line of canal, to the Ouse, at Selby, is about thirty miles and a half, on which there are ten locks, and from Wakefield to Sélby, the distance is thirty-one miles and a half, on which there are eight locks. The length of an old lock is from 58 to 60 feet, and the width from 14 feet 6 inches to 15 feet, but adjoining to these, are new locks 18 feet wide. The depth of water admits of vessels drawing 5 feet 6 inches: and the improvements, now in execution, will enable vessels of one hundred tons burthen to navigate these rivers.
In the year 1817, and again in 1818, a project was brought forward by a few landholders in that district, for making a canal from Knottingley, down the valley of the Went, to fall into the
