Excerpt from A Chronology of Inland Navigation in Great Britain: Being a Record of the Dates of the Principal Works and Events Connected With Inland Navigation to the Present Time The following pages endeavour to place the History of Inland Navigation in Great Britain from the commencement to the present time in a form suitable for ready reference. So far as the author is aware, no record has been published since 18 3 I, when Mr. Joseph Priestley, of the Aire and Calder Navigation, brought out his Historical Account of Rivers and Canals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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