[256] The principal elements of this charge are:—

Per Ton.
s. d.
Actual cost of transport10 0
Tolls from London to Preston Brook5 2
Bridgwater Company’s charges  5 s. 6 d. to 7 6

[257] Appendix to ‘Report of Select Committee on Canals,’ p. 236.

[258] The inland navigation rates of Germany are established according to the following scale (‘Journal of Statistical Society, 1888,’ p. 391):—

Per Ton
per Mile.
(a) Goods in bulk, loaded in boats and towed in trains  ·18d. to ·29d.
(b) Goods in bales, towed in trains·24d. to ·38d.
(c) Goods in bales, carried by steam carriers·39d. to 1·0d.

[259] ‘Bulletin du Ministère de travaux publics,’ Nov. 1887.

[260] ‘Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers,’ vol. xiv. p. 55.

[261] Paper on “Inland Transport in the Nineteenth Century by Land and by Water,” ‘Journal of the Society of Arts,’ 1888.

[262] Ibid.

[263] Report on Wilts and Berks Canal, 1882.