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The town of Liverpool is too famous in 

 the trading world to allow me to pafs it 

 without viewing : I wanted to be informed 

 of a few particulars relative to the (hipping, 

 imports, exports, and rife and fall of their 

 commerce, a little of which I gained, tho' 

 by no means what I wiflied. I walked over 

 the town for a view of the publick buildings, 

 &c. the following are the minutes I took. 



The exchange is a quadrangular building 

 furrounding a court, which is inclofed by a 

 double row of Titfcan pillars, and over them 

 another of Corinthian ones ; but the area is 

 fo fmall, that it has more the appearance of 

 a well than the court of an edifice. In this 

 building is the afTembly-room, iixty-five 

 feet by twenty-five, handfomely fitted up; 

 but the mufic-gallery at one end is a mere 

 over-grown fhelf $ the common blunder in 

 nine affembly-rooms out often. The card- 

 room is prepofterous ; a narrow flip of about 

 eleven feet wide -, fo that Lilliputian card 

 tables muit, be made on purpofe for the 

 room, or no pafTage remain around them for 

 fpeclators. From the cupola on the top of 

 the building is a very fine view of the town. 



The ne^w church, dedicated to St. J?a>ul % 

 is a building: that does credit to the town : 

 It Hands in the centre of a fquare, fo. that 

 you may view it to much better advantage 

 than its namefake at London > but though 

 handfome in feveral refpects, yet will it by 



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