CHAPTER II. 



When the extent of benefit which may be derived from occasional 

 change of air, both to the physical and moral constitution, is duly 

 estimated, no person whose circumstances permit wall neglect to avail 

 himself of it. SIR JAMES CLARK. 



SOUTHPORT AS A RESORT FOR INVALIDS. 



GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT GENERAL REMARKS ON CLIMATE 

 LOCAL CLIMATE OF SOUTHPORT. 



.EOLOGICALLY considered, Southport is situated upon 

 the edge of a series of recent deposits overlying the 

 margin of the Trias or New Red Sandstone of the south of 

 Lancashire. The rocks of the latter form the high ground 

 towards Ormskirk and Liverpool. Nearly the whole of the 

 space to which the name of Southport, with its immediate 

 adjuncts, may be applied, was, as regards the surface, at no 

 very remote period, a tract simply of blown sand ; whatever 

 soil may exist upon any part of the surface within these 

 bounds has been created by the industry of man, and but 



