238 Chat-moss Knows ley L iverpool. 



are found also numerous fossil shells and fossil 

 sponges ! 



Running over Chat-moss, which, after at least fifteen 

 centuries of black and wet sterility, is now about to 

 become useful, being in process of consolidation by 

 skilful draining, we pass Newton and Rainhill, and then 

 come to Huyton, three stations before reaching the ter- 

 minus at Liverpool This is the point to stop at if it be 

 wished to visit KNOWSLEY, the celebrated seat, with its 

 magnificent park, crowded with game, of the Earl of 

 Derby. The distance is about two miles. Travelling 

 along this line, it is not unprofitable to remember that 

 so recently as A.D. 1635, Liverpool was not thought 

 worthy of being inserted in the map of England. In 

 Selden's "Mare C/ausum, seu de Dominio Maris" a 

 curious old Latin book at the Chetham Library, page 

 239, there is a map in which Preston, Wigan, Man- 

 chester, and Chester are all set down, but although the 

 Mersey lies in readiness, there is no Liverpool ! 



