Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. KNUTSFOKD HISTORICALLY; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; ADAM AND THE DISPERSION OF THE NATIONS. NAME KNUTSFORD FROM KING CANUTE HIS CHARACTER; LETTER OF DR. JACOB GRIMM. ROBERT CANUTCS J KNUTSFORD AT THE CONQUEST SUCCESSION TO THE MANORIAL RIGHTS J BURGESSES AND A MAYOR; HISTORY OF THE CHURCH BELLS. LEVY OF FOOT, 1549. Witt something of a crab-like motion, we have worked ourselves forwards by going backwards, and have advanced as far as we can by that process. Let us next attempt the other mode; let us leave retrogression and enter upon progression, beginning from the beginning, and speaking of Knutsford historically. I might imitate the Welsh pedigree, and with reference to the Geological History of Knutsford might note down the remark, "about this time the world was created;" I might go into the question of the geological formation of the very ground on which the Manor Court-house is placed, and arguing, how old the sand beds on the Race-course are, mixed with layers of fox-bench, and coloured by a deposition of oxide of iron; how old too are the gravel pits in Tattbn Park, or the brick earths at Shaw Heath; and supposing Rostheme Mere was once filled by a huge rock of salt, how many centuries it would occupy for rain and fresh-water streams to melt and wash all the salt into the sea; from these data I might work out a geological romance respecting the condition of Knutsford, not merely before the flood, but before man himself was created upon the earth; and, though from resting on the new red-sandstone the highest geological antiquity cannot be claimed, the substratum of the neighbourhood is of kindred "In Bucklow Hundred," according to Holland's Agricultural Survey of Cheshire, p. 10, "the soils are very much intermixed, clay...
