To Hunter & English, millwrights & engineers
Bow
Locks are 15½ft wide, bridges 12ft high, canal 30ft wide at the bottom, mud to be excavated is 2 to 3ft deep. We would like an engine that could clear 1 mile in 40 days.
Hunter & English
Millwrights & Engineers, Bow Middlesex
Gents
I was favord with your letter of the 9th Inst in due course, & by your leave to inform you that the Locks on the Stroud Water Canal are 15½ feet wide, and the Bridges are 12 feet high from the underside of the Arch to the surface of the Water. the Canal is 30 feet wide at the bottom and the mud to be excavated is from 2 to 3 feet deep, the is nothing but mud to excavate. The Company would like an Engine that would clear One Mile in forty days.
Your early reply would oblige
