Swansea, a flourishing and progressive seaport of Glamorganshire, at the entrance of the Tawe, 45 m. into Swansea Bay; has a splendid harbour, 60 acres of docks, a castle, old grammar-school, &c.; is the chief seat of the copper-smelting and of the tin-plate manufacture of England, and exports the products of these works, as well as coal, zinc, and other minerals, in large quantities.
Population (circa 1900) given as 90,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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