CHAP. VI. 



DUKE'S (ANAL TO HUNCOKN. 



393 



From Runcorn, it was arranged that the boats should 

 navigate l>y the open tideway of the Mersey to the 

 harbour of Liverpool, at which place the Duke made 

 arrangements to provide another dock for their accom- 

 modation. Brindley made frequent visits to Liverpool 

 for the purpose of directing its excavation, and it still 

 continues devoted to the purposes of the canal naviga- 

 timi. It lies between the Salthouse and Albert Docks 

 on the north, and the Wapping and King's Docks on 

 the south. The Salthouse was the only public dock 

 near it at the time that Brindley excavated this basin. 

 There were only three others in Liverpool to the north, 

 and not one to the south; but the Duke's Dock is now 

 the centre of about five miles of docks, extending from 

 it on either side along the Lancashire shore of the 

 Mersey. 



THE DOKE'S DOCK. LIVERPOOL 

 [By E M. Wimperis ] 



