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and was said to attend to these things principally for amusement, never making a charge. The Swansea Harbour Trustees composed, as far as we can gather, of the following gentlemen of the Town, viz.:

SURVIVING REPRESENTATIVE TRUSTEES.

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LORD VERNON, Representative Trustee.

thereupon Resolved that "if it would appear that Captain Huddart had made surveys for the improvement of harbours, and that work has been done in consequence of them, he should be offered fifty guineas beyond his expenses."

One of the first things Captain Huddart mentions in the Report consequent upon this Resolution was that “Dispatch is the life of Trade, and is the general principal next to safety that gives one port an advantage over another, provided the internal situation is much the same, dispatch in the end, finds its own account, as all detention ultimately falls upon the freight." From the situation of Swansea in the Bristol Channel, and the large mineral manufacturing district with which it is connected, it must at all times command a very large portion of the Trade of South Wales, which admits of almost unlimited extension. It has been remarked that she possesses advantages which are denied to other ports, and it rests with those to whose hands her interests are committed to turn them to proper account.

Prior to this, the first Trustees of Swansea Harbour, appointed so far back as 1791, promptly erected a doubled

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The Coal Field of Sth Wales & its surrounding Beds of Limestone

its Ports & Towns with the Great Copper Manufacturing Centre, Swansea. Prepared by Col. Grant Francis. ES.A.

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THIS REDUCED COPY OF AN ORIGINAL

DRAWING IN THE

POSSESSION OF THE HARBOUR TRUSTEES
SHEWING THE EXIT OF THE RIVER TAWE ITS DOCK & RAILWAY APPROACHES.
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS ALEXANDRA PRINCESS OF WALES, WHO WITH H R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES VISITED SWANSEA
THE GREAT CENTRE OF THE BRITISH COPPER TRADE IN OCTOBER 1881
OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERV: GEO GRANT FRANCIS, F.S.A COL

BY HER

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