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84 by the lock into Wood creek, a small rapid narrow stream of water, in shoal that it would have been (?) for in to have got along, had we not been aided by a flank of

    ^ let out

water from the canal, and by the dead water formed by 4

                      ^ below the Canal

wooden locks which the Canal (?) have (?) built to aid the navigation; notwithstanding all this our boat were frequently aground, (?) they drew only 12 (?)(?); indeed I can scarcely conceive how the large Durham boat I described at Little fully could ascend so shallow a brook, which in scarcely so wide (?) the fourth