DCKK'S (ANAL To TIIK MKIISKY. 



ol)t;iiiK'(l enabling its conversion into ;i \vet dock; since 

 which time a scries of docks have been constructed, 

 extending for about five miles along the north shore 

 of the Mersey, which are among the greatest work's 

 of modern times, and afford an unequalled amount of 

 shipping accommodation. 



LIVERPOOL IN 1600. 

 [From Troughton a History of Liverpool.] 



From that time forward the progress of the port of 

 Liverpool kept steady pace with the trade and wealth 

 of the country behind it, and especially with the manu- 

 facturing activity and energy of the town of Manchester. 

 Its situation at the mouth of a deep and navigable river, 

 in the aeighbourhood of districts abounding in coal and 

 iron, and inhabited by an industrious and hardy popula- 

 tion, were unquestionably great advantages. But these 

 of themselves would have been insufficient to account for 

 the extraordinary progress made by Liverpool within 

 the last century, without the opening up of the great 

 Astern of canals, which brought not only the towns of 

 Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Lancashire into immediate 

 eoiinection with that seaport, but also the manufacturing 



