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Cheshire, meet; the repair or rebuilding of 

 which falls on each of these counties. The 

 old bridge was also a packsaddle bridge, with 

 its dangerous approaches on both sides, at 

 right-angles, was so narrow as not to leave 

 room for the drivers of the carts, and the bat- 

 tlements were eventually knocked off into the 

 river by the collision of wheels of carts and 

 carriages passing over it. Powers for rebuild- 

 ing it on a wider scale and of an elliptic form 

 of arch having been obtained from the Quarter 

 Sessions of each county, and the matter en- 

 trusted to the late Thomas Legh, of Lyme, 

 Esq., John White, of Park Hall, Esq., and 

 myself; the plans and specifications were 

 prepared (at my particular resquest) by the 

 late Mr. Samuel Fowls, of Northwich, a most 

 intelligent and valuable servant of the county 

 of Chester for many years, for an elliptically 

 arched bridge ; and in the absence of one 

 of my coadjutors on the Continent, and of 

 the other in Leicestershire, the letting of the 

 erection of the bridge by ticket devolved on 



