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Rh turning to the right; they lead to the Crown-street station, situated at the end of the small tunnel, now, we believe, used principally for coals, and to the large tunnel which communicates with the Company's warehouses at Wapping. The tunnel through which the trains with merchandise pass, is 2,250 yards in length, 22 feet wide, and about 16 high, and rises 1 in 48. The small one parallel to it, formerly used by the carriage trains from Liverpool, is 291 yards long, 15 feet high, and 12 wide; it has an inclination of half an inch to the yard. In the area, at the head of these tunnels, are the stationary engines, employed to draw the waggons up the large one and down the smaller, the former being an inclined plane downwards, the other upwards; here also are the boilers which supply the steam to the engine at the Edge-hill station. A little further on we arrive at the

which is 1¾ miles from Liverpool; the seat on the left is the residence of Charles Lawrence, Esq., shortly after, the carriages pass through the

This is cut through the solid rock, and is in some places 70 feet below the fields above. Here is an inclined plane, the declination of which is about four feet in the mile, and causes a decided acceleration of speed. The next place we arrive at is the