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mencement of those improvements and deve- 

 lopment of the estates, value, and capabilities, 

 designed and executed by the late Matthew 

 Ellison, Esq., of Glossop, vv^ho lived to see 

 his employer's estates thrown into communi- 

 cation with the neighbouring manufacturing 

 districts by the turnpike-roads, of which he 

 was the author, and the great moving power 

 which effected their completion. His fore- 

 sight and judgment has resulted in the vast 

 manufacturing wealth and activity which 

 now exists and is now to be seen " in entire 

 Grlossop Dale." But such firmness of purpose, 

 such integrity, and such sound and clear- 

 sighted views as to the capabilities of his 

 employer's extensive property, and such de- 

 termination to lay them open, are only to be 

 found in such men as he, and can be best 

 appreciated by those few who stiU survive, 

 who can remember what Glossop Dale was, 

 and what Glossop Dale is now, — one of the 

 most splendid instances of the consequences 

 of judgment, integrity, and perseverance in 



