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 alarm thinks no more of Nixon or his prophecies, than the fox he follows with so much zeal, or the grouse that he is probably at this moment (12th August) shooting. As a matter of curiosity, we must, however, mention that, in support of the one prophecy, we were informed of another, viz., that this same Nixon had foretold that in the year 1837 England should be without a king. Whether this has been invented to support the other, or whether the fact of our country being kingless is an accidental fulfilment of one of his reveries, it cannot but surprise us that, in the nineteenth century, the ravings of an idiot should be regarded in authority as but a trifle only inferior to Holy Writ.

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Opposite here, to the left, is a place for the engines to take in water (it is not a station) and Eaton Hall, the seat of Sir.

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On the right, about 200 yards before you arrive at this post, is Newbridge Salt Works. Mr. Johnson, proprietor: here are 30 or 40 men employed. The works are about a quarter of a mile from the road.

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To the left is Walton Green, a red house, occupied by Mr. Penning. A little more to the eastward is Bostock Hall, the seat of James France, Esq. A mile further we arrive at the end of the Great Excavation, and