For the sake of the future it may be well worth while to visit these great
works. It may be a pleasant recollection for the man who, in some ten or
twenty years, beholds the docks crowded with steamers and coasters, and the
railway busy in conveying seaborne cargoes, to recall the fact that he saw
the infancy, if not the birth, of that teeming trade; for it is not to every
man that it is given to behold the commencement of such a future as seems
promised to gloomy, swampy Great Grimsby.
At Great Grimsby we are in a position to take a large choice of routes. We
may go back to London by Louth, famous for its church, spire, and comical
coat of arms; {209} by Boston and Peterborough; or take our way through the
ancient city of Lincoln to Nottingham and the Midland Counties, where the
famous forest of Robin Hood and the Dukeries invite us to study woodland
scenery and light-land farming; but on this occasion we shall make our way to
Sheffield, over a line which calls for no especial remark--the most noticeable
station being East Retford, for the franchise of which Birmingham long and
vainly strove. What delay might have taken place in our political changes if
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