CHAP. VII. 



(JKoWTIl or MANVIIKSTKII. 



395 



person more like that <>i';i monarch with State resources 

 at his rMimnand, than oi'a young English nobleman. 



Hut the Duke was possessed })y a brave spirit. He had 

 put his hand to the work, and he would not look back. 

 He had become thoroughly inspired by his great idea, 

 and determined to bend his whole energies to the task of 

 earrving it out. He was only thirty years of age the 

 owner of several fine mansions in different parts of 

 the country, surrounded by noble domains he had a 

 fortune sufficiently ample to enable him to command the 

 pleasures and luxuries of life, so far as money can secure 

 them; yet all these he voluntarily denied himself, and 

 el lose to devote his time to consultations with an unlet- 

 tered engineer, and his whole resources to the cutting of 

 a canal to unite Liverpool and Manchester. 



'Faking up his residence at the Old Hall at Worsley 

 a fine specimen of the old timbered houses so common 



-LEY OLD HALL. 

 [By Peicival Skelton, after his original Drawing.] 



in South Lancashire and the neighbouring counties, he 

 cut down every unnecessary personal expense ; denied 

 himself every superfluity, except perhaps a pipe of 

 tobacco; paid off his following of servants; put down 

 his carriages and town house; and confined himself and 

 his Ducal establishment to a total expenditure of 400/. 



