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lofrwood mills and near the Bull’s Head Inn in Newtown; 
and after receiving the refuse from the numerous dyeworks, 
size manufactories, chemical works, tanneries, skinyards, 
gasworks, sewers, &c., it is stopped at Messrs, Caistor and 
Thompson’s corn mill at Scotland Bridge and the School 
Mills in Long Millgate before it reaches the Irwell at Hunt’s 
Bank. 
“The Medlock enters the borough at Beswick charged with 
the refuse of numerous works, and is dammed up by weirs 
across its course at Messrs. Guest’s weir at Beswick, Neck 
Break weir, the Island Mill weir (a little below which near 
Fairfield Street it receives some fetid water from a small 
dam at Cruickshank’s Mill), Messrs. Hoyle’s weirs in 
Ardwick, and the weir near Messrs. Wood and Westhead’s 
Mill in Garratt. At this place it receives the water of 
Shooter’s Brook, a filthy little stream as black as ink, which 
enters Bradford from Newton, and after flowing under 
Butler Street to New Islington exposed is covered in till it 
reaches the Medlock at Garratt. This last named stream, 
after its junction with Shooter’s Brook, passes under Oxford 
Road along Little Ireland, and is dammed up near Messrs. 
Birley’s Mill in Kenyon Street. It then receives many 
sewers from the surrounding district and the river Tib in 
Gay thorn, which runs under the centre of Manchester but 
is entirely built over, and reaches the Duke of Bridgewater’s 
Canal in as polluted a state as possible, thence some of its 
water after being employed as a power of winding goods 
escapes into its old course, which joins the Irwell near 
Hulme HalL The waters of the Duke of Bridgewater’s 
Canal are chiefly derived from the Medlock after it has re- 
ceived the contents of the Manchester sewers, and thus are 
in as bad a condition as the streams before described. 
“Cornbrook enters Ardwick from Gorton, and partly 
open and partly built over traverses Ardwick, Chorlton- 
upon^Medlock, Greenheys, Hulme, and Cornbrook, at which 
