. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . t proprietors who were draining the district of its hfesblood, so to speak, by the abstraction of brine. This witness stated thatowing to the flooding with water of the old salt workings and the pumping ofliquid therefrom, the huge pillars of rock salt wlaich were slowly but surelybeing dissolved and causing these subsidences, Northwich would be suddenlycovered by one vast lake as certainly as the waters cover the sea. Howlong will that be ? asked one salt boiler of ano
. Cheshire, its traditions and history, including a record of the rise and progress of freemasonry in this ancient province . t proprietors who were draining the district of its hfesblood, so to speak, by the abstraction of brine. This witness stated thatowing to the flooding with water of the old salt workings and the pumping ofliquid therefrom, the huge pillars of rock salt wlaich were slowly but surelybeing dissolved and causing these subsidences, Northwich would be suddenlycovered by one vast lake as certainly as the waters cover the sea. Howlong will that be ? asked one salt boiler of another—they wereboth elderly men. As long as the old cow milks, came the is probably an allusion to an old Cheshire sajang that the moreyou milk a cow properly the more milk she gives. The old cow, how-ever, is still yielding the precious milk abundantly, quite as much and morethan she did a century ago. Nixons prophecy, or that by De Ranee, has notcome to pass so far. Old inhabitants have asserted that the salt area of Cheshireis, in parts, of immense thickness, and this is geologically proved to be true, so. mm ^ BBh! ^S^ R CHESHIRE: ITS TRADITIONS AND HISTORY 9 that a constant source of brine is derived from underground springs, whichflow in certain stated directions, and that the supply to be derived therefromis practically inexhaustible. And there we may safely leave it. Before quitting the geological aspect we should Uke to refer to anothermatter more immediately connected with the Bowdon district. The meresof Cheshire are characteristic of the county, and, it is surmised, were formedafter the sea had disappeared in the course of ages. One large inland lakeexisted formerly, bounded by Delamere Forest and the adjacent high landson the east by Alderley Edge, and the elevated banks extending to Bowdonin that dim past when The suns eye had a lightless glaze,And the earth with age was wan. There is an old tradition that Rostherne Mere was bottomless, but sound-ings
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