The Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District of South Wales

THE

SMELTING OF COPPER

"THE SWANSEA DISTRICT."

FROM

FRONTISPIECE.

SWANSEA FROM THE SEA, WITH THE COPPER WORKS TO THE NORTH.

AN ORIGINAL DRAWING IN THE POSSESSION

OF THE HARBOUR TRUSTEES SHEWING ITS PRESENT STATE OF PROGRESS INCLUDING THE NEW EAST DOCK & PIER

OPENED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THEIR

THE PRINCE

PRINCE

COL. GRANT-FRANCIS, F.S.A,

JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTY OF GLAMORGAN,
AND BOROUGH OF SWANSEA;

V. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTION OF SOUTH WALES,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND,
AND THE WELSH MSS. SOCIETY,

AUTHOR OF "SWANSEA CHARTERS;" "NEATH AND ITS ABBEY;"
"MEMOIR OF HENRY DE GOWER, BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S,”
ETC., ETC.

"Of the entire make of Copper in Great Britain, fully Nine-tenths appear
to be smelted in the Swansea District."-PHILLIPS.

SECOND EDITION.

Illustrated.

HENRY SOTHERAN & CO.,

LONDON AND MANCHESTER.

1881.

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