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commerce of the town, and tlio inhabitants are at present a hundred times more 

 numerous than they ^vere at the commencement of the eighteenth century. 

 Inohuling its suburbs, Liverpool is the second town of the United Kingdom. It 

 altogether monopolizes certain brandies o£ commerce. Nearly all the cotton of 

 the world linds its way to Liverpool, and is thence distributed amongst the towns 

 of continental Europe. Most of the emigrants who leave Europe embark at 

 Liverpool. The principal articles of export are coal, salt, cutlery, fire-arms, 



Fig. 136. — The Liverpool Water "Works. 

 According to H. Beloe. Scale 1 : 350,000. 



W.ofG. 2° 50' 



.5 Miles. 



machinery, china and earthenware, and textile fabrics of every description. The 

 local manufactures contribute in a certain measure in feeding this export trade. 

 There are iron foundries and brass works, machine shops, chemical works, breweries, 

 and, above all, the ship-building yards on both banks of the Mersey. 



Like most other large towns, Liverpool can show a few noble edifices. It has 

 its public parks, a zoological and a botanical garden. Interesting, too, is one of 

 the cemeteries; v/ith catacombs cut out of the rock. Most prominent amongst its 

 public buildings is St. George's HaU, in the style of a Greek temple. Near it 



