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The sending of men overland from Appledore to Plymouth, a course frequently adopted to avoid the circuitous sea-route, was attended with similar risks. The attenuated neck of land between the Mersey and the Dee had an evil reputation for affairs of this description.
After lunch, we all got into an omnibus, and went to the Mersey Iron Foundry, to see the biggest piece of ordnance in the world, which is almost finished. The overseer of the works received us, and escorted us courteously throughout the establishment; which is very extensive, giving employment to a thousand men, what with night-work and day-work.
Even where the fierce gust swept off the crests of the river wavelets, boiling and breaking angrily, there was scant contrast of color in the dusky spray, or murky foam. The chafing Mersey tried in vain to make himself heard. All other sounds a voice, for instance, two yards from your ear were drowned by the trumpet of the strong northwester.
To disarm suspicion, a large party of ladies and gentlemen were invited aboard; and the ship started down the Mersey, ostensibly on her trial trip, with the sounds of music and popping corks ringing from her decks.
The evening is closing, and neither of the other ships whose slovenly rigging wants Blake's dressing hae any guns a-board to signify." "Ay," said another, "so much for our near neighbours: what say you to our farther ones, at t'other side the island just at the entrance to the Mersey?" "Say!" said Springall, "why, that they could be round in less than no time if they knew who's who."
Considerable and continuous pressure had to be brought to bear on the civic authorities at Newcastle before they finally took action; but having once done so, the future of the Tyne was assured. Now it ranks second only to the Thames in the actual number of vessels entering and leaving, and owns only the Mersey its superior in the matter of tonnage.
A few hours after, we found ourselves again afloat on board the good ship Liberty, of four hundred tons, belonging to Liverpool, gliding down the Mersey with a fair breeze, which, we hoped, would carry us quickly across the Atlantic.
"Why, youngster, how did you come aboard here? Where have you been ever since we sailed from the Mersey?" he asked. Too weak to answer, I could only stretch out my hand and then point to my lips, to show that I wanted food and water. "If you've been down in the hold all these weeks, no wonder that you want something to eat," he remarked.
In that year a canal was built in Lancashire from Sankey Brook to St Helen's; and in 1759, James Brindley built the first important one, the Duke of Bridgewater's canal from Manchester, and the coal mines of the district to the mouth of the Mersey passing, near Barton, by aqueduct, over the river Irwell.
Greenock tenders, again, united with tenders from Belfast and Whitehaven in a lurking watch for ships making home ports by way of the North Channel; or circled the Isle of Man, ran thence across to Morecambe Bay, and so down the Lancashire coast the length of Formby Head, where the Mersey tenders, alert for the Jamaica trade, relieved them of their vigil. Dublin tenders guarded St.
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