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WORKS AT PENMAEX MAW It. CHAP. XIX. 



PENMAEN MAWR. [By Percival Skeltoo, after his original Drawing.] 



the base of which, in rough weather, the ocean dashes 

 with great fury. There was not space enough between 

 the mountain and the strand for the passage of the 

 railway ; hence in some places the rock had to be 

 blasted to form a terrace, and in others sea walls had 

 to be built up to the proper level, on which to form 

 an embankment of sufficient width to enable the road 

 to be laid. A tunnel 10J chains in length was cut 

 through the headland itself; and on its east and west 

 sides the line was formed by a terrace cut out of the 

 cliff, and by embankments protected by sea walls ; the 



