98 PLYMOUTH AND DARTMOOR RAILWAY. 



Mackintosh, of London, Contractor for forming the 

 road, and Messrs. Bailey and Co,, of the same place. 

 Contractors for supplying the iron. 



It being found necessary to make a branch from 

 Crabtree to Sutton Pool, Plymouth, an act was 

 solicited and passed July 8th, 1820, for that pur- 

 pose, the estimated expense of which amounted to 

 £7,200. 



Some parts of the line being considered as improv- 

 able, by varying it, and excavating a tunnel at 

 Leigham, on the lands of the late Addis Archer, 

 Esq., another act was applied for and passed, July 

 2nd, 1821, with the additional estimate of £5,000. 



Thus, in three years, three acts were procured ; 

 and, under their authority, three several sums of 

 £27,783., £7,200., and £5,000., (together £39,983.) 

 raised, principally, by the influence of Sir Thomas 

 Tyrwhitt, who himself subscribed upwards of 

 £3,000., to whom followed Sir Masseh Lopes, Bart., 

 as the next largest subscriber. 



The total length of the line, from Prince Town to 

 Sutton Pool, is 25 miles, 2 quarters, and 6 chains ; 

 and is used in conveying up lime, coals, timber, &c., 

 and taking back granite and other articles. The 

 tunnel (represented in the accompanying engraving) 

 is on Higher Leigham estate, in the twentieth mile 

 from Prince Town, and admeasures in length 620 

 yards, in height 9 feet 6 inches, and in breadth 8' 

 feet 6 inches, its greatest depth under ground being 

 109 feet, and with the rest of the completed part was 

 opened for public use, with a procession, September 

 26., 1823, 



Language is incompetent to describe the gran- 

 >deur and beauty of the scenery through which the 

 rail-way passes. " But," to use the words of an 

 article inserted by the writer in a newspaper, '' the 

 beauties of nature, however impressive, are second- 

 ary to the higher objects which arise to the mind's 

 eye in traversing such scenes. The merchant and 

 the trader, the manufacturer and the agriculturist, 



