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The new church, dedicated to St. Fault 

 is a building that does credit to the town : 

 It (lands in the centre of a fquare, fo that 

 you may view it to much better advantage 

 than its namefake at London j but though 

 handfome in feveral refpefts, yet will it by 

 no means ftand fb well the telt of examina- 

 tion. The cupola is by no means ftriking ; 

 it does not rife in a bold flile -, its being 

 ribbed into an o6logon is difadvantageous ; 

 nor is there fimplicity enough in the lan- 

 tern. There is a great heavinefs in the 

 breadth of the fpace between the capitals 

 of the pillars and the cornice. Within 

 there is a central circular area of forty feet 

 diameter, inclofed by pillars of the Ionic 

 order : There is much lightnefs, and a 

 limple elegance in it that is pleafing; but 

 all hurt by the abfurdity of the fquare cor- 

 nices above the pillars, which projed: fo 

 much as to be quite difgufling. This 

 church was raifed at the expence of the 

 parifli, and coil i 2,000 /. 



But the glory of Liverpool is the docks 

 for the flipping, which are much fuperior 

 to any mercantile ones in Britain : One 

 very fine new one, of a circular form, is 

 finiihcd, and defended by a pier, all excel- 

 lently 



