Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — English Harbors. [ARTICLE]

English Harbors.

The bar at the entrance of the river Mersey, and which has been such a source of trouble to the city of Liverpool, has now been so far lowered that there is a minimum depth of nineteen feet over a channel 1,000 feet wide, and a minimum of twenty feet over a width of 500 feet, and the river authorities say that at no distant date the channel to Liverpool will be open to all vessels at all states of the tide. It is also stated that vessels drawing twenty-one feet six inches can now successfully navigate the Manchester canal. —[San Francisco Chronicle.