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the right," as soon as you get a little distance 

 on the road, before you come to Peakshill. 

 The bridges were of necessity widened at 

 every point of communication with our neigh- 

 bouring counties, when a new mode of transit 

 for goods, and of travelling, was introduced, 

 consequent upon the increase of population 

 and immigration of hands of all ages for 

 employment in the cotton mills and manu- 

 factories, established among, and in course of 

 erection among us. 



In my early days the late Samuel Prith, 

 Esq., of Bank Hall, and Dr. Denman, of 

 Stoney Middleton, were the nearest magis- 

 strates to Glossop Dale, on whom devolved 

 all inspection of bridges and roads, with a 

 view to their improvement. And at a very 

 early date of the present century, I accom- 

 panied my father to Glossop Hall, by invi- 

 tation to dinner of the late Matthew EUison, 

 Esq., in the month of August, when the 

 heather was in full blossom, on the occasion 



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