BY T. C. BARKER, M.A. Read 16 December 1948 When Arthur Young visited the north of England in 1771 he went “to Manchester with design not only to view the manufactures of that town but to make it my headquarters from thence to go the tour of his Grace the Duke of Bridgewater’s navigation about which such wonders are abroad.” (1) In the account of his tour in the north Young devoted forty- six pages, complete with maps and diagrams, to a description of these wonders: the twelve sets of…
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