Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. 2 of 3: Compiled From Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County The Street proceeds along the high ground for two miles, in a direction nearly parallel with the course of the. Weever. Two considerable tumuli, in a perfect state, remain close to the banks of the river, at the point where it deserts this line, and assumes its north west course towards the estuary Of the Mersey. 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.