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Upon the whole, the uncommon fpifil 

 which actuated his Grace the Duke of 

 Bridgwater in defigning and executing fuch 

 noble works, can never be fufficiently ad- 

 mired : At an age when moft men aim only 

 at pleafure and diifipation, to fee him en- 

 gaged in undertakings, that give employ- 

 ment and bread to thoufandsj that tend fo 

 greatly to a the agriculture, manu- 



ures, and commerce, of an extenfive 

 neighbourhood j in a word, that improve 

 and adorn his country, is a fight fo very 

 uncommon, and lo great, that it muff, com- 

 mand our admiration. Nor was it lei's to 

 his Grace's honour, that, in the execution 

 of thete fpirrted fchemes, he had the pene- 

 tration to difcern the characters of mankind 

 fo much, as to fix en thofe people who were 



{hame, among other arguments aflerted the fufficiency 

 of the navigation to Liverpool already exifting; a ftrolcc 

 in one of their anfwerers is excellent : — " The delavs 

 " and inconveniences render this (the old) navigation 

 " ineffectual for the conveyance of the produce even of 

 '* the county of Chejlet ; as far the moft confiderable 

 " part of the theefe produced in that county is now car- 

 c< ried by land, parallel with the whole length of this 

 " EXCELLENT navigation, to Frodjbam- bridge , and 

 " Bank-quay ; fiom which places it is conveyed bv flats 

 " to Liverpool, there to be re-fhipped for London, and 

 tl other markets; and Salt, the othtr jlap/e article of 

 " this county, is lens in great quantities, all bylandcar- 

 .'. . b to Mancbejler-, for the fupply of 

 '* that town, and a very extenfive and populous neigh- 

 " bourhood, notwithftinding the preient navigable com* 

 " munication betwetn thofe places." 



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