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Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom, containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the small islands dependent
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London G.B. Whittaker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ps andsheds, and a range of stone buildings of aquadrangular form, 450 ft. long, by 300 wide :three sides of which are appropriated asmagazines for arms and stores of all kinds,and in the fourth is the rigging-house, withthe sail-lofts over it. Within the quadran-gle are two other ranges of buildings, con-structed of iron, as a security for the storesagainst fire. The victualling departmentsof the yard are apart from the other bran-ches of the establishment, but nearlyconnected with each other. The bake-house is at Sutton-Pool; the brewery andcooperage at South-Down, and the slaugh-ter-house is at Deviis-Point, at the head ofthe Sound. The naval-hospital is a verycommodious and extensive building, atStonehouse. The outer harbour, or bay ofPlymouth-Sound, is now the finest road-stead in the world, and is capable of afford-ing safe anchorage for 2000 sail of ships.To protect this harbour from the prodigiousswells which set into it from the AtlanticOcean, had long been a desideratum with
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DEV ENGLAND AND WALES. DEV government, and it ha sat length been effectedbv-means of a Breakwater, or mole, con-structed at the mouth of the Sound, about3 miles out, in the channel, and stretchingacross from the eastward of St. CarlosRocks, to the westward of the Shovel Rock,being nearly a mile in length, or about one-half of the width of the Sound, at thatpart; and leaving a free passage for ships inand out of the harbour, at each end. Thisstupendous work consists of a vast assem-blage of stones, amounting to 2,000,000 ofIons, in blocks, of from l£ to 5 tons each,sunk promiscuously on the spot and left tofind their own places or positions. The firststone was sunk in August 1812, and suchwas the rapidity of the execution, that in 8months a part of the mound appeared abovewater, and in two years, the swell of thesea was so much broken, that vessels couldrun in, and harbour within its range, withconfidence and security. The whole under-taking is now so far advanced that ships ofall des

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