. The earth and its inhabitants .. . be watched. The two-Beim^^ow-s are pleasant villages to the south-east ofBirkenhead ; -whilst Bilston, with the Liverpool Observatory, lies to the is a small watering-place on the estuary of the Dee. Ascending the Mersey above Liverpool and Birkenhead, we reach Runcorn, 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 neighbourho
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . be watched. The two-Beim^^ow-s are pleasant villages to the south-east ofBirkenhead ; -whilst Bilston, with the Liverpool Observatory, lies to the is a small watering-place on the estuary of the Dee. Ascending the Mersey above Liverpool and Birkenhead, we reach Runcorn, 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 neighbourhood terminate in the Celtic icich,or rather wyche, which signifies salt work, and must not be confoundedwith the Danish wick, the meaning of which is bay. Of these salt Fig. 130.— Chester Cathedral (as restored).. mines and brine springs those at Northivich are by far the most saliferous strata have a total thickness of about 100 feet, and extendfor a considerable distance beneath the soil. They are honeycombed by thegalleries excavated by the miners, and although these are supported by amultitude of pillars, the ground has given way in many places, and a portion ofthe town had to be deserted by its inhabitants, who have built themselves freshdwellings at Witton and other villages in the neighbourhood. Middlewich, on theDane, a tributary of the Weaver, and Nantwich, a quaint old town, on the Weaveritself, are the principal amongst the other salt towns of Cheshire. In favourableyears the mines and springs of the Weaver basin yield over 1,000,000 tons of salt, LANCASHIRE. 265 which supplies a profitable cargo to outward-bound merchantmen, and in thismanner the miners of Cheshire contribute largely to the prosperity of the greatport of the Mersey. Most of this salt, which is cut int
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