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Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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The Grand Tunnel, a 1690-yard subterranean aqueduct on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Foulridge between Colne and Burnley, was opened on Tuesday evening. Packet boats, vessels of the Leeds and Burnley Union company, ladies, and gentlemen passed through amid music and cheering crowds, highlighting its benefits for regional commerce. One vessel carried grain; construction took over 5 years, with high costs indicated by an offer of one guinea per inch.
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On Tuesday e'enight the Grand Tunnel or subterranean aqueduct, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, at Foulridge, between Colne and Burnley, was opened, when the packet boats and several of the vessels belonging to the Leeds and Burnley Union company, a number of Ladies and Gentlemen, attended by a grand band of music, passed through it, and proceeded down to Burnley, accompanied the whole way by vast crowds of people, who expressed their great satisfaction at this promising circumstance to the commerce of that part of the kingdom, with repeated and loud huzzas. And what adds to this happy circumstance, one of the vessels was entirely laden with different kinds of grain.
This great tunnel, which is 1690 yards in length begins about one mile from Colne, and ends at about one mile from Burnley, has been upwards of 5 years in completing, and we may form some idea of the expence in making thereof from the circumstance of one Guinea an Inch having been offered to any company that would undertake it.
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Foulridge, Between Colne And Burnley
Event Date
Tuesday E'enight
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successful opening with crowds expressing satisfaction for commerce; one vessel laden with grain; tunnel completed after over 5 years at high cost (one guinea per inch offered)
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The Grand Tunnel or subterranean aqueduct on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Foulridge was opened, with packet boats, vessels of the Leeds and Burnley Union company, ladies, and gentlemen passing through accompanied by music and vast crowds cheering its promise to regional commerce.