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In other parts, however, the topography suggests that its use as a canal was unlikely: The segment which ran and to some extent still runs through the Soke, now City, of Peterborough rises from the River Nene to a ridge at Eye then falls to the River Welland. This it does in steady gradients, quite unlike the characteristics of a canal designed for transport. Its course makes it clear that this outcome was carefully planned. At some level sections in Lincolnshire it has causeways of never-disturbed ground crossing it and it passes in gradients, up and down the sides of slight ridges. Given the length of the canal, however, modern surveyors suggest that the original engineers may have "lost their level" at points along the course and these natural barriers were left in place to maintain the required depth of water, or that they were a deliberate precaution against the whole section drying out in summer.
, Lincolnshire, suggest a canal intended for navigation evidence of seventeenth century improvements to form part of local drainage schemes has been identified, overlying material from the Roman period.
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