[96] Wedgwood’s Letters, III, 249.
[97] “Dict. Nat. Biog.”: “Jas. Brindley.”
[98] Wedgwood’s Letters, I.
[99] Wedgwood’s Letters, I, pp. 85-7.
[100] Ward, op. cit., p. 154.
[101] Wedgwood’s Letters, III, p. 31.
The original proposition was for a canal 3 feet deep in general, but at the fords only 30 inches; and the original estimate of cost, excluding the tunnel, was £700 a mile south of Harecastle and £1,000 north of that place. The tunnel, a single one, was to cost £10,000.—Wedgwood’s Letters, III, p. 290.
[102] Wedgwood’s Letters, III, p. 30.
[103] Wedgwood’s Letters, III, p. 206.
[104] Burton, “Porcelain, a Sketch,” p. 251.