The Liverpool guide ; including a sketch of the environs ; with a map of the town : and directions for sea bathing / By W. Moss.

  • Moss, William.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Liverpool guide ; including a sketch of the environs ; with a map of the town : and directions for sea bathing / By W. Moss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 LIVERPOOL GUIDE. rivers and canals, with the extensive manufac- turing town and neighbourhood of Manchester ; the coal country of Wigan ; the unrivalled pot- teries of Staffordshire; the exclusive export of salt; its central situation on the western coast of the V kingdom, thereby communicating readily with Dublin, and the northern parts of Ireland; and finally the goodnefs of the Harbour, and the very superior accommodation for Shipping ; have all conspired to form it into a vortex, that has nearly swallowed up the foreign trade of Bristol and the other western ports of the kingdom. Wealth being the result of commerce, the flourishing state of the town has enabled it to make efforts for its internal improvement, and which it has recently done in a manner not a little extraordinary; this, with the pleasant and salu- brious situation of the town, the convenience of sea bathing, its various amusements, and the live- ly cheerful air which regularly pervades it; have of late years made it the resort of strangers of all descriptions, for the purposes of health and amuse- ment ; and have made it necefsary to procure a GUIDE to direct them to and explain such objects as may be most worthy their .attention. Al- though the office of a Guide is so humble as not to