The international geography . Manchesterand Liverpool is over a low, flat and imarshy plain, which was originallyalmost impassable on account of bogs, and the construction of thefirst railway between the two towns (30 miles) across the Chat Mossin 1829, was considered one of the greatest engineering feats of thetime. This bog and many others have since been drained and convertedinto solid ground. Manchester forms practically one town with Salford,though separated from it by the narrow stream of the Irwell, whichlike most rivers of the district is as black as ink from dye refuse. Thecentre cons
The international geography . Manchesterand Liverpool is over a low, flat and imarshy plain, which was originallyalmost impassable on account of bogs, and the construction of thefirst railway between the two towns (30 miles) across the Chat Mossin 1829, was considered one of the greatest engineering feats of thetime. This bog and many others have since been drained and convertedinto solid ground. Manchester forms practically one town with Salford,though separated from it by the narrow stream of the Irwell, whichlike most rivers of the district is as black as ink from dye refuse. Thecentre consists mainly of vast warehouses, for Manchester itself is mercan-tile rather than manufacturing; the Royal Exchange is said to be thelargest building of its kind in existence, and the Town Hall is also a superbstructure. Owens College is the chief college of Victoria University. Thefactories are in the suburbs and in the ring of neighbouring towns. Ashton,Oldham. Rochdale, Bury, and Bolton (or Bolton-le-Moors) lie close up to. Liverpool and Birkenhead. England and Wales 173 the steep rise of the Pennine moorlands along the third part of a circlefrom east to north-west of Manchester, and all are within ten miles of itscentre. Oldham is by far the most important for manufactures ; in fact itcontains one-third of all the cotton spindles in England. Bolton speciaHsesin the finest qualities of cotton 3arn, and Bury and Rochdale retain a con-siderable woollen manufacture, although cotton-spinning to the northern edge of the coal-field Preston stands at the head ofsea navigation on the Ribble, where the main line of the London andNorth-Western Railway crosses the river. Here Arkwright set up the firstspinning frames worked by mechanical power in 17^)8. and the com on If-\ > EnqliahMiles
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