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300 at Formal opening of canal, some pull wagon of cargo into city, all rewarded with "handsome deal with" [food items, street get together], named "Sons of Riot and Confusion, but behaved in probably the most decent and orderly fashion", dispersed "without generating any disturbance"
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Allowed to make a road, 60 yards lengthy, 4 yards broad, from corner of wharf to "the hedge over read more the uppermost oak tree". Gonna make an iron foundery there. Coals, iron ore, other components by means of canal
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"A substantial buying and selling city, here the streets...all new paved". Has twelve here ships of 140 tons Every single Apart from sloops and modest craft. Vessels lay their sides near to the warehouses
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