Mr. Nance, manager of Belfast city tramways,'has'laid; before the : corporation a proposal for: the construction of t tramway to the top -of-Cavohill, a picturesque 'eminence ;: twelve hundred feet high ny three miles; long,.and 'have a gradient -of one in sixteen. The scheme includes the acquisition of largo stretches of moorland, to be utilised as a publio park and golf coarse,- and the' provision of an esplanade, one mile in length round a precipitous cliff, from; which an extensive view could -be obtained, not merely of Countries Antrim and Down,, but of the Scottish coast and, on clear days, of the'lsle of Man'.'; The ; cost. is' estimated at ,£IIO,OOO, and -Mr. Nance calculates thatwith "a fare of 3d. for the journey the nadertakinK. would : •:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 6
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123Untitled Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 6
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