the post marked 17½ miles from Liverpool, just where the Sankey Canal turns off towards Runcorn Gap, the rails there being barely 50 feet above low water mark.
28½ 68¾
The embankment we are now on extends for one mile and a half, and passes under two bridges: it is succeeded by a slight excavation of a quarter of a mile, over which are two more bridges: this brings us to the commencement of another embankment, opposite the 70th post.
27¼ 70
The village of Rickersford is to the left.
26¾ 70½
About four miles to the left, or eastward, is Shugborough Park, the elegant seat of Lord Viscount Anson. The name of Anson is intimately associated with the naval glory of England; and as the birth-place of that great commander and navigator, this spot receives an interest independent of that which it commands as an object of taste. This splendid mansion was consider. ably enlarged and ornamented some few years since; the grounds and surrounding scenery, however, attract the principal attention of the visitor there nature and art combine to captivate the senses. The Trent and the Sow flow through grounds upon which science has exhausted her power in rendering beautiful; the Gothic architecture of the
