power generation as the water descends level by level to the river.

The First Level Canal contains 12 large gates regulating water coming into the system, each 15 ft long by 9 ft wide, and weighing more than four tons, and two smaller gates at 11 ft by 4.5 ft, all powered by a water wheel. At its origin the canal is 140 ft wide with 22 ft of water depth. It extends eastward about a thousand feet and then sweeps south for more than one mile (1.6 km) to supply the upper tier of mills.

The Second Level Canal runs parallel to

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