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RATES.
This is an useful work; commencing at Penrhynmaur Coal Works, it proceeds in a north-easterly direction to Red Wharf Bay, crossing in its course the turnpike-road between Holyhead and Bangor. At Red Wharf Bay it has a branch which follows the shore of the bay for a short distance northwards. The whole length is seven miles and four chains, disposed of in the following inclined planes. From high-water-mark in Red Wharf Bay, there is a rise of 14 feet 7½ inches, in two thousand nine hundred and one yards; in the following length of one thousand seven hundred and forty-six yards, there is a further rise of 38 feet 1 inch; thence to the summit it is five hundred and seventy-two yards, and rises 27 feet 6½ inches; in the next length of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five yards there is a descent of 27 feet; and the remaining distance of five thousand four hundred and seven yards, to the coal works, is level. Mr. W. W. Bailey surveyed this work in 1812, and his estimate was for a single road, having twenty turns out of sixty yards each in length, £8,797, 8s. 2d. and for a dock or basin at Red Wharf, £1,005, making in the whole £9,802, 8s. 2d. for executing which the Earl of Uxbridge and Holland Griffith, Esq. subscribed £5,000 each.

PLYMOUTH AND DARTMOOR RAILWAY.
59 George III. Cap. 115, Royal Assent 2nd July, 1819.

1 George IV. Cap. 54, Royal Assent 8th July, 1820.

1 &amp; 2 George IV. Cap. 125, Royal Assent 2nd July, 1821.

COMMENCING at Bachelor's Hall in the parish of Lydford, at no great distance from the prison erected for the reception of prisoners of war on Dartmoor, the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway runs in a very circuitous course from north to south by Moortown, Grenofen, Buckland Abbey, Hoo Meavy, and Borringdon to Crabtree in the parish of Egg Buckland, where it crosses the turnpike road from Plymouth to Exeter, and where the original line