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MAP OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. (Western Part.) 



Gloucester, and Bristol ; and he published many pam- 

 phlets urging their formation in other places. At one 

 period of his life he was a large iron-manufacturer, for 

 some time acting as Chairman of the Staffordshire iron- 

 masters. The times, however, went against him. It 

 was thought he was too bold, some considered him even 

 reckless, in his speculations ; and he lost almost his 

 entire fortune. He continued to follow the business of 

 a land-agent, and it was while engaged in making a 

 survey for one of his clients in the neighbourhood of 

 Liverpool early in 1821, that he first heard of Mr. 

 Sandars' project of a railway between that town and 

 Manchester. He at once called upon Mr. Sandars, and 

 offered his services as surveyor of the proposed line. 

 After conferring with his friend Mr. Moss, Mr. Sandars 

 authorized James to proceed, and agreed to pay him 

 for the survey at the rate of 10/. a mile, or 300/. for the 

 entire survey. 



The trial survey was then proceeded with, but it was 



/conducted with great difficulty, the inhabitants of the 



district entertaining the most violent prejudices against 



the formation of the proposed railway. In some places 



Mr. James and his surveying party even encountered 



