18 A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES, 



The only manufacture of confequence irt 

 Chefter is that of gloves, which is carried 

 on to fome extent. There are alfo a fmall 

 manufactory of tobacco pipes, an iron foun- 

 dry, fnufF mills, {hip builder's yards, and 

 other concerns, which afford fome but not 

 much employment to the poor. 



The maritime bufinefs is of no great ex- 

 tent. It chiefly confifts of the coafting 

 and Irifh trades, with a fmall portion of 

 trade to foreign parts. The number of 

 mips belonging to this port is but fmall. 

 The bufinefs of mip-building is carried on 

 here continually and with advantage, many 

 veflels from 100 to 500 tons being built 

 annually. 



Till the new channel was made for the 

 River Dee, which was finimed about the 

 middle of the prefent century, veflels of 

 twenty tons could fcarcely reach the town, 

 and mips of burthen were obliged to lie 

 under New town, ten miles lower; which 



was 



