3*0 Tavistock Canat. 



they belong (except where otherwise directed), but with a 

 mark or number, and accompanied hv a sealed letter (on 

 which is to be written the same mark or number), con- 

 taining the name and address of the claimant, and the 

 certificates ; which sealed letter will not be opened, unless 

 the premium be adjudged to the MS. &c. bearing that 

 mark or number. Without the attention of the wrfter to 

 this circumstance, the board cannot vote any reward to 

 such MS. &cc. 



Persons sending memoirs, or implements, &c. in claim 

 of premiums, are requested to desire some person to inquire 

 the determination of the board, within twelve months after 

 the MS. &c. is delivered. 



In case of no application, the lottrr, rontaining the name 

 and address of the claimant, will be burned. 



LXVII. Intelligence and Ml^cdlancous Articles, 



TAVISTOCK CANAL. 



J5ircn of our readers as take an Interest in important na- 

 tional works, will not be displeased with some account 

 which we have procured of the canal lately begun in the 

 neighbourhood of Tavistock. 



Near this town, and between the river Tavy, which flows 

 through it, and the Tamar, which forms almost the whole 

 line of separation between the counties of Devon and Corn- 

 wall, is a hill called Morwel Down, rising to the height of 

 about 700 feet above the level of the tide. Being in the 

 centre of a district in wliieh valuable mines both of copper 

 and tin, but principally of the former, have lately been 

 discovered, and having on its surface the symptoms of 

 veins, or, as the Cornish miners call them, lodes, which 

 will probably yield those metals, plans of piercing through 

 this mountain have often been proposed ; and lately, owing 

 to the spirited exertions of gentlemen concerned in the 

 neighbouring mines, seconded by the concurrence of his 

 Grace the duke of Bedford, on who.se property the whole is 

 situated, the scheme has been entered into, and some consi- 

 derable progress in its execution already made. 



As the river Tavy is not navigable, while the Tamar at 

 the foot of the ground proposed to be cwt through is so for 

 large vessels, the idea of opening a canal from each end of 

 the proposed tunnel, to make a water communication be- 

 tween the interior country and the river, easily suggested 

 3 ' itself. 



