The Artizan . H THE ARTIZAN MARCH I 1865 ©KGMIiWi IPATTIKIT STTKAIKMT YII liffl ID IE K AKIE) ®£^L IF K A Gil E. ???--•-•hCEio-K THE AETIZAN. No. 27.—Vol. 3.—Third Series. MAECH 1st, 1865. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OP THE MERSEYDOCKS AND HARBOUR. By J. J. BlECEEL. (Illustrated by Plate 275.) In order to give our readers as comprehensive an idea as possible of thenature of the ground upon which these works are situated, we shall nowlay before them such abstracts of a paper, On the Geology of the Countryaround Liverpool, furnished us by Mr. G. H. Morton, , as may-serve to elucidate


The Artizan . H THE ARTIZAN MARCH I 1865 ©KGMIiWi IPATTIKIT STTKAIKMT YII liffl ID IE K AKIE) ®£^L IF K A Gil E. ???--•-•hCEio-K THE AETIZAN. No. 27.—Vol. 3.—Third Series. MAECH 1st, 1865. HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OP THE MERSEYDOCKS AND HARBOUR. By J. J. BlECEEL. (Illustrated by Plate 275.) In order to give our readers as comprehensive an idea as possible of thenature of the ground upon which these works are situated, we shall nowlay before them such abstracts of a paper, On the Geology of the Countryaround Liverpool, furnished us by Mr. G. H. Morton, , as may-serve to elucidate the part of the subject immediately before us, namely,the inquiry into the nature of the foundations upon which the dock andriver wall are reared, and such portions of it also as may be otherwise ofinterest in connection with the main subject of this work. We will, how-ever, first give, for the information of those of our readers who may notbe acquainted with geological technicalities, a brief statement of the orderof succession of geological systems and formations with their terminology,in o


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