A Tour in England And Scotland in 1785

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: hill, and then put into carts. Eachofthofe boats carries about a ton. From Caftletown proceed to Chapel-in-Frith, a fmall neat town: deep at the George Inn, where there is moft excellent accommodation. Tuefday, 31 ft May. Leave Chapel-in-Frith, and ride through Whaley and Stockport, to Manchefter. After afcending the hill above Whaley, the face of the country aflumes a new and more pleafmg afpeet:, being changed from rugged rocks and lofty mountains, to fertile vales and beautiful woods. The whole country, for a great many miles round Manchefter, is exceedingly well cultivated, and fertile. This town is old, and of large extent ; and in the fkirts of it, you are ftruck with the appearance of many elegant houfes. But, on the whole, it is not fo large, or fo well built as Birmingham. The road from Stockport