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Southland Times, Issue 978, 1 July 1868, Page 3

Bepobe the Steam-engkote. — From the time when the first fulling mill was erected at Manchester (says Mr Baines), in the reign of Edward I. or Edward 11., to the year 1860, the only power used in the manufactories of that city was the one supplied by the three streams that run through the city — namely, the rivers Irwell, Irk, and Medlock. Bolton, whose manufacturing prosperity dates at least from the time of the early Tudor kings, also owed much of its early success to the numerous and abundant streams of water that flow from the mountains on the course to the river Irwell. All the other Lancashire and Cheshire manufacturing towns began their career with no other power than that of falling water, though they have continued and extended it with the still greater power of steam. There are at least a hundred streams, small and great, flowing from the hills of the two counties, and there is not one of them from the Doddon on the north to Dane and the Dee on the south, that has not done much to promote the prosperity of the district through which it flows.