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Identifier: wanderingsexcurs00rosc (find matches)
Title: Wanderings and excursions in North Wales
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Roscoe, Thomas, 1791-1871
Subjects: Wales, North -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : C. Tilt, and Simpkin and co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ccurrence when the mails were conveyed by sailing packets; and such was then the uncertainty of the voyage, that passengers seldom embarked without providing sufficient stores for three or four days. Now, however, the case is very different, as the passage is accomplished in five hours and three quarters, and with such uniform regularity that the arrival of the steam-packet from Dublin can be calculated upon with as much certainty as that of the London mail coach. The Post Office authorities deserve great praise for the early introduction of steam-vessels on this station, where they were the first, I understand, regularly employed during the rough storms of the winter months, which, it was previously imagined, they were not calculated to encounter. The order and regularity with which this part of the Post Office establishment is conducted, reflect great credit upon the industry and ability of the government agent. Captain Goddard, to whom, I believe, its efficiency is chiefly owing. i
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© t5i -a k I d WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. 170 For want of a more extensive area of shelter, and deeper water,great destruction of shipping has occurred on the rocks outside,by vessels endeavouring to reach the Pier. Since 1811, thirtyships have been on shore, nineteen of which were totally lost. Yet,with the present limited space, above twelve hundred sail, of morethan one thousand tonnage, exclusive of the packets, have takenshelter here during the last few years, driven in by storms andadverse gales. A plan has been proposed to make an outer harbour, sufficientlyspacious to admit merchant vessels and men-of-war at all times.This would be a grand improvement; for the bay presents a finespacious opening, one half sheltered, with lights on each side ofits entrance. It is, moreover, centrally situated in St. GeorgesChannel, in the track of all its trade; and presents the onlystation from the Lands End to the Clyde, on the east side of thechannel (excepting Milford), to which vesse

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