. The earth and its inhabitants ... tminster. Tarporley, a quaint old markettown, where hosiery and leather breeches are manufactured, lies about 10 miles tothe of Chester. Birkenhead, the principal town on the peninsula of Wirral, is a mere depend-ency of Liverpool, which lies within sight of it, on the opposite bank of theMersey, and with which a tunnel will soon connect it. Its vast docks have beenconstructed since 1847, principally through the exertions of Mr, Laird. Theycover an area of 165 acres, have quays 10 miles in length, and 235 acres ofwarehouses. One of these artificial ba
. The earth and its inhabitants ... tminster. Tarporley, a quaint old markettown, where hosiery and leather breeches are manufactured, lies about 10 miles tothe of Chester. Birkenhead, the principal town on the peninsula of Wirral, is a mere depend-ency of Liverpool, which lies within sight of it, on the opposite bank of theMersey, and with which a tunnel will soon connect it. Its vast docks have beenconstructed since 1847, principally through the exertions of Mr, Laird. Theycover an area of 165 acres, have quays 10 miles in length, and 235 acres ofwarehouses. One of these artificial basins is the largest into which the waters ofthe Mersey are admitted. Ship-building and machinery are the principal industriescarried on here. Tranmere and WaUasetj are populous suburbs of Birkenhead,and from the latter a row of pretty villas extends to the delightful watering-placeof New Brighton, at the mouth of the Mersey, where a charming view of theWelsh hills presents itself, and the crowds of shipping entering and leaving the. 204 ?riIK lUUïISII ISLES. port muy bo watcluMl. Tlio two JicbitKjtotis arc \)\cixsant villages to the south-east oflîirkenhead ; wliilst liiMo», with tlie Liverpool Obs3rvatory, lies to the (trk(j(ite is a small \vatorin<^-plaeo on the estuary of the Dee. Ascending the Mersey above Liverpool and Birkenhead, we reach Runcor», inthe vicinity of the mouth of the Weaver—the busy shipping port of the Stafford-shire Potteries, and of the salt mines in the basin of the Weaver. That river isfed by numerous streams which rise in the saliferous triassic formation. Thenames of several towns in its neighbourliood terminate in the Celtic wich,or rather wyche, which signifies salt work, and must not be confoundedwith llie Danish irlck, the meaning of which is bay. Of these salt Fig. 130.—CiiESTEii Cathedral (as hestoked).
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