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Baines was born at Leeds in 1806, the third son of Edward Baines, Member of Parliament
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Excerpt from Yorkshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, From the Earliest Ages to the Year 1870; With an Account of Its Manufactures, Commerce, and Civil and Mechanical Engineering The incursrons of the Saxons and the Angles into the British Islands differed greatly, as relates to the rapidity of the conquest and settlement of the country, from the irruptions of the other Germanic tribes into Gaul, Italy, and Spain, though the most important of them took place in the same age, and were accel erated, if not produced, by the same cause; namely, the irruption of immense tribes of Huns into Germany, and as far westward as the river Marne - between the years 440 and 452 - under the com mand of the terrible Attila, noted even among barbarian conquerors as the Scourge of God. On the Continent the incursions of the Germanic tribes were made by land, and were effected by vast armies of fighting men, accompanied by their wives and children. These hordes, after a few victorious battles, either extirpated or reduced to subjection the original inhabitants, and in a few years took posses sion of, settled in, and peopled the conquered countries. This was the case with the Franks in Gaul, the Goths in Spain, the Lombards in Italy, and even the Vandals in North Africa. In those countries the invading armies, amounting in some cases to many hundred thousands of fighting, men, with their.wives and children, in a few years established the dominion of the new and victorious races over whole nations and vast ranges of country: ' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Yorkshire, Past and Present, Vol. 1: A History and a Description of the Three Ridings of the Great County of York, From the Earliest Ages to the Year 1870; With an Account of Its Manufactures, Commerce, and Civil and Mechanical Engineering The Eastern Range of Mountains and Hills - Highly important also in their in uence on the development of modern society were the causes which, at some remote period, raised from the ocean the lofty rocks, the rich mineral beds, and the fertile soils, which extend from the coasts of the North and East Ridings of York shire into the interior of those'two Ridings. These mountains and hills are of the Lias, the Oolite, 'and the Chalk formations, and belong to strata which are not found in any part of Great Britain lying north of the county of York. They appear to emerge from the German Ocean, on the coastsof the North and of the East Ridings, whence they spread westerly, and then run in a southerly direction to the southern borders of Yorkshire. After passing under the Humber the strata rise again, increase in width, and spread over the midland, eastern, and southern counties of England, until they again reach the British Channel, and disappear beneath its waters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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In the same period there have appeared new and original accounts of the Salt-field of Cheshire, the iron district of Furness, and of all the principal rocks, soils, and mineral products of the two Counties. Within the same period excellent accounts of the agi-iculture of Lancashire and Cheshire have been published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of A gricidture, as well as in local works. In preparing the description of the two Counties this information has been carefully condensed into a connected description of the natural history of the whole district. It is also within the same period that the railway system has grown up in Lancashire, and has extended throughout the whole kingdom, and that ocean steam navigation has connected the ports of the two Counties with almost every part of the Globe. The rise of these two great systems of communication has in that period brought the industry and the personal communications of this populous district into close connection with those of all parts of the United Kingdom, and of the whole world, and has given an impulse, both to industry and intercourse, that was entirely unknown in former times. Within the same period the cotton manufacture, the greatest of a Ubranches of manufacturing industry, has increased at least threefold, so as now to require a yearly supply of more than one thousand millions of pounds of cotton for the employment of the mills and looms of the two Counties. In the latter part of this period the cotton manufacture has passed through a season of the severest trial, owing to the Civil War in A merica, and the sudden and %iolent breaking up of the system of slave labour in the cotton districts of that coimtry. But it has survived the terrible trials of that period; it has succeeded in drawing supplies of its raw material from numerous and distant countries; and it is freed from its danger (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Baines was born at Leeds in 1806, the third son of Edward Baines, Member of Parliament
In 1829 he settled in Liverpool acting editor of the Liverpool Times newspaper. Having acquired the paper as the Billinge"s Advertiser. The paper closed in 1858 due to competition from cheap dailys.
After 1858 he became secretary of the Liverpool"s office in London, as an employee of the city"s corporation.
Foreign thirty years was an active promoter of liberal interests in Lancashire. In 1852 he published a valuable history of the commerce and town of Liverpool, and in 1867 Lancashire and Cheshire Past and Present, having in 1859 settled in London at the Liverpool Office as a parliamentary agent.
His last work, Yorkshire Past and Present, was published in 1871. Two minor books of his were Agricultural Resources of Great Britain and the Colonies, and Observations on the River Plate.
His county histories are characterised by fullness of details, clearness of statement, and orderly arrangement.
Legacy Baines married Fanny Higgins, daughter of a Liverpool councillor, with whom he had seven children, of which six survived him. Works 1 2.
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(Volume I: Part 1 352pp., Part 2 350pp.)