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London, England, 1824-12-23 00:00:00

FOR PRESERVING TIIE TEETH AND GUMS.

rpHE VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER has so
long been in general use that it is unnecesaary to offer any fur-
ther recommendation of it. Composed of Vegetables, without the
admixture of any Mineral or pernicious ingredient whatever, it is
free from the usual objection against the uie of other Dentritlces.
Its detersive power is just sufficient to annihilate those destructive
particles which adhere to the Gums and the Interstices of the
Teeth ; healing injuries in the former, and promoting a new enamel
(where it has Men injured or corroded) on the latter. It likewise
imparts a firmness and healthy redness to the gums ; and if used re-
gulat ly, will preserve the teeth iu a sound state to old age
add in boxes, at 2s. 91 .by BUTLER, Chemi.t, 4, Cheapside,
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and by the principal Medicine- Venders throughout the United
rf Be careful to ask for BUTLER'S VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER ;
and to observe the name and address " BUTLER, 4, Cheapside,"
arc engraved on the stamp and label attached to each box of this
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lat. titles.

The most obvious fact to be noticed, is the 2reat:
saving in distance, which the vessels passing from the
Irish or Bristol Channel into the English and
vice verse, will effect by using the pr.posed Canal, in-
stead of going 10un..1 the Land's End, and which saving
cannot ba reckoned at less thin 300 miles. This, mulct
common circumstances, may, I apprehend, be consi-
dered as a sitting of six days, for a direct advance on,
the age of fifty miles per day, t, ill be found to be
beyond
eytvZ the averso rate of saving of coasting vessels.'.
In the difficnit wantical directi•ins for navigating the
Evglisio and litistol Channels, it is stated by tome that
ue,:erly winds prevail for months, in others
that they prevail for nine months in the year. The
truth, I believe, lies between them. _

To vessels, therefore, proceeding round the Land's
End into, the It i,ll or Bristol Channels, or from-these
Channels to London, and ti eother r'orts in the English
Channel and Germanic Ocean, there ate about nine
chances out of twelve that they will meet with contraty
winds during one half their voyage.

Looking then to this last circumstance, as well as to
the saving in distance, I am quite sure that vessels na-
vigating between the above-named points will, on an
average through:rut the year, save fully a week's sail in
each passage out and heme, by using the Canal instead
of going round the Land's End, reckoning that the pas-
sage of a vessel, through it will occupy about a day
and a half, for the width of the Canal being ninety•fise
feet, vessel will be able to pass each other with facility,
and as it has on the while a level range of thirty-four
miles for navigation uninterrupted by locks; and as mot c-
over the direction of the Canal will be nearly north and
south, whenever the wind shall blow from the eastward
or from the westward, as it most generally will do, ves-
sels will be able to use their sails with advantage in
passing through it ; and I see no objection to their be-
ing permitted to do so under proper regulations. Sloops
and fore and aft rigged vessels will mostly be able to
sail through ; at times recourse must be had to track.
ing, either by the crews or with horses, or occasionally
by both, or it may very possibly hereafter be found es.s
pedient to establish some kind of steam boats on the
Canal, for the purpose of towing vessels through it.
There are, however, other circumstances connected
with the passage of vessels round the Land's End from
the Purts on the south coast of Wales, which must, as
fat as the Welsh traders are concerned, greatly increase
the above estimated saving of time. These circum-
stances I will here state.

The regular traders between Cardiff and London
generally make six complete voyages in the year. The
passage from one place to the other sometimes occu-
pies thirty days; it has been done in six ; but these are
alike unusual occurrences. From Swansea and Milford
the length of passage is somewhat less—from Newport
and Bristol it is rather more. Perhaps '2 days may
bt taken as about the average length of passage each
way between these places and London; but then the
voyage must only be considered as commenced when
the vessel has actually sailed from and cleared the last
port in the Bristol Channel, for excepting in the sum-
' mer months, and in very moderate weather, vessels can-
not depart from the ports in South Wales to go round
the Land's End, unless the wind be in such direction as
will enable them to sail out clear of the coast in one
tide; if they cannot accomplish this, the returning tide,
which is here exceedingly rapid, would drift them back
again, probably to leeward of the port whence they
started. In summer, vessels do occasionally venture to
sail with a westerly wind, and take the chance of an-
choring to save a tide, but in winter never.
The most usual place of rendezvous f.-r vessels wait-
ing for a wind to sail from the Bristol Channel is Pen-
narth Roads, near to the entrance of Cardiff river,
where they may be sheltered under the high land of
Pennarth, and whence they can readily proceed on
their voyage in case the wind should become favourable
for their doing so. The detention here is often for a
considerable length of time; and it was only last year,
that a great number of vessels were actually kept here
and at Swansea, and at Milford, for thirteen weeks by
the continued prevalence of westerly winds.
The delay occasioned to the Welsh trade, by this
last mentioned cause alone, cannot, I think, on an
average of seasons, be reckoned at so little i a week
for each voyage—or six weeks iu the year; and if the
Ship Canal was cut from Stolford, or some concur rent
point of the Bristol Channel, across to the proposed
termination at Beer Harbour in the English Channel,
no such delays would take place, for vessels from all
parts of Wales might then cross over to its entrance
from whatever point the wind blew, and, in 21 hours,
be transported to an open part of the English Channel
either in winter or summer.
On the whole then; and taking into account this cause
of detention, which, although it is not continei to, yet
applies more especially to vessels frequenting the Bris-
tol Channel, as well as the other sources of delay before
noticed, and regarding, moreover the facilities which
the proposed Canal will yield generally to the commu-
nications between Ireland and the weAern parts of
England, att.l all. the ports on the English Channel and
German Ozean, I think that I do not overrate its ad-
vantages when I reckon that on an averatr.e of cr, cairn-
stances and seasons a fortnight will be saved by Ai the
vessels which shal regularly use it in their outward
and hum:mind passage, instead of going round the
Land's End, or in other words, that where six entire
voyages are now performed in the year, vessels from
the Welsh Ports will then always, and other vessels
will generally, bE enabled to make twelve.
fine saving in expense will, of course, bear a certain
proportion to the saying of tune, and sse may at rive at
some kind of an approximation to its amount, by at-
tending to the fallowing statements.
In the returns made to Parliament during the last

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