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Title: The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rivers
Publisher: London (etc.) Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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th is as much as 170 feet, with 2-U) feet stretch at the l(>vel.A electric light along its course,it is navigable bv night as will as l)v dav. The canal is in four stictches, dividedliv live sets of locks, that evcntualK raise its waters to a height of (idl leet abovethe sea. Theic is a range of docks lioth on the .Maiicliestei- and on tlic Salloidsi(h; of the ti-rminus <if the canal, with a great open slrctih of watci- for the nioxc-ment of vessels. Merc (iiiiires give but a poor idia of the extent and character ofthe canal, lait thrre ate ceitain features which ajjpeal strikingly to the leastimaginatixc mind. Thus, in re;:aril to the eNca\ations, we lia\r the startling state-uieiil tiial the (;uantit\- of earth removed to secure a chainiel bir llie canal couldliave made a wall round the globe (i feet high and 2 feet thick, and that enough
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250 nirnns or ohkat nnnjix. (TUE luWELl.. brii-ks were used to make a lauseway tt feet Avide from one end of tlie kin.iidoni tothe other. Another point we have to remember is that but for improved maeliineivand the use of steam and of powerful explosives, tlie eonstruetion of the Maneliester.Ship Canal in all its parts, instead of being accomplislu-il in seven vears. ((.uldhardly have been linished in half a centurv. There are political as Avell as industrial featuri>s that cannot l)e overlooked Inany reference to the great seat of the cotton trade. A statue of Cromwell in \ictoriaStreet, .staiuling on a rugged block of granite, uiay l)e taken as a memorial of tliesti-ong stand Manchester made for the Parliament in tlie Civil Wars of the seven-teenth century. It Avas in )\Ianchester that the tirst lilow in tliat struggle is saidto have been struck. Cm-iou.<ly enough, however, Mamlustci. in a moment ofimpulse, declared for the Stuarts in the rising a century later. Its inhabitant

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