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part of the kingdom, and when carriages and carts 

 of every description were very few, but certainly 

 totally unfit for the public convenience in the present 

 day. 



Mr. William Dwelly, of Plymouth, has contracted 

 to build this bridge for the sum of £1,050., it is to 

 be completed about Michaelmas next, and is to be 

 constructed of fine and close grained limestone.* 

 Thus a great public accommodation will be procured 

 on this line of road, and will terminate the labours 

 of the Trustees of that Turnpike, as far as regards 

 bridges ; as they have, without the assistance of the 

 county, widened Plympton St. Mary Bridge, and 

 built new bridges at Ivy Bridge, Bittaford, and Glaze, 

 and with their assistance Lee-mill and now this 

 nameless bridge across the Plym. When this work 

 is completed and paid for, if other improvements 

 are not required, the tolls must be applied to the 

 liquidation of a debt of no very large amount, after 

 which some reduction of the tolls will take place, to 

 do which the trustees have already shewn a dis- 

 position by lowering those which were most burthen- 

 some. 



We connot conclude without repeating a wish that 

 this bridge may not be left, by the proper authorities, 

 without a name; to call it New Bridge is like calling 

 a man John Smith, which every body admits is no 

 designation. Names of course should be distinctive 

 and at once convey to the enquirer some definite 

 thing, and all other names which would have been 

 appropriate seeming to be pre-occupied, and there 

 being no name given to any bridge in our neighbour- 

 hood, bearing our name, we ask to be permitted to 

 become its nomenclators in this instance, and to 

 name it The Plymouth Bridge. 



* The old bridge is now almost destroyed ; a temporary bridge 

 of wood is constructed for persons and vehicles to pass over. 



