98 PLYM AND TAMAR HUMANE SOCIETY. 



MR. EDITOR, 



As you stated in your prospectus 

 that a certain portion of your magazine would be devo- 

 ted to matters of local interest, whether topographical, 

 architectural, picturesque or otherwise ; I take the 

 liberty of offering to your notice, with the hope of 

 aiding, however little, so praiseworthy a work, a series 

 of papers, noticing Edifices, Institutions, Inventions, 

 &c. &c., of recent origin, of local character and tending 

 to the dignity or improvement of the town and neigh- 

 bourhood, I have jotted down in my note book some 

 memoranda (which I shall have pleasure in reducing 

 to a readable shape for " The Museum " if accept- 

 able) concerning the Saltash Bridge, the Torpoint 

 Bridge, the Steam conveyance up the Tamar, the Rail 

 Road to Plympton, Dartmouth Bridge, the new roads 

 leading from Saltash Bridge to Devonport, Plymouth, 

 Liskeard, &c. The Railways in North-Devon to Oak- 

 hampton, &c. the Exeter canal, &c. for your next 

 number I present to you the 



SPECTATOR, No. 1. 



THE PLYM AND TAMAR HUMANE SOCIETY. 



This Institution so benevolent, so laudable so 

 incalculably valuable and so highly honorable to Ply- 

 mouth, owes its origin, its rise, progress and establish- 

 ment to the exertioas of a medical gentleman of this 

 town, to him our townsmen owe their gratitude for the 

 foundation of an establishment, which, so long as it 

 exists, will afford a high insteuace of their benevolent 

 and humane feelings. 



During the course of his professional practice, many 

 instances of suspended animation fell under his notice, 

 where the suffering individual miglit have been restored 

 to life, and in many instances to u family dependent 

 solely on him for support, <hd a station containing the 

 necessary resuscitating upparatus been accessible at the 

 time, with that spirit of true philanthrophy and genuine 

 bene*0kence (I speak from experience) which is emi- 



