ADDENDA.

This canal, when completed, promises great advantages tothe proprietors of the immense coal-works at its extremity, aswell as to the populous towns of Bath and BristoL Coal is anarticle of such great and universal request, that every exertiontending to bring it to market at a cheap rate, merits all possiblecommendation.

SWANSEA CANAL.

Description os a Canal from Swansea to Hen-noyadd, in the

Counties of Glamorgan and Brecon. T. Sheajly , Engineer.

IN our first publication we gave notice, that a line for a canalin this quarter was in contemplation; we have now the satisfac-tion to inform our readers the scheme, after much delibera-tion, has been brought to perfection, and an act of parliamentobtained for the lame.

The line of the canal, as at present settled, commences atthe town of Swansea in the county of Glamorgan, passes Lan-door, the copper works of J. Morris, Esq. at Morris Town,and running parallel with the river Tawe, crosses the riverTwrch, and finishes at Hen-noyadd, about four miles be-yond Ystradgunlais.

The length of the canal is seventeen miles, with threehundred and seventv-three feet rise, viz. from Swansea, toopposite Pont ar Taw, being about eight miles and a quar-ter, has one hundred and five feet rife; from thence to PontGwaynclawdd eight miles further, has two hundred and thirty -seven feet rise; the remaining three quarters of a mile has arife of thirty-one feet.

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