• Bridgewater Canal - Manchester to Runcorn
  • Refer: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/jim.shead/Bridgewater-Canal.html#BRDG
  • History: Authorised under Acts of 1737, 1759, 1760, 1762, 1766 and 1795. The "first canal of the canal age" was promoted by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, and built under the direction of John Gilbert. James Bindley worked under Gilbert's direction

• [Canal by Day]

• [Canal by Twilight]

• [Canal by Night]

On Mud Fever / Leptospirosis / Weil's disease

MUD FEVER

One is leptospirosis or Weil's disease. If the reader goes down with a baffling fever, headache and heavy sweats, the physician may suspect the condition sometimes called mud fever. And, if the reader has been working in a sewer, or in any other wet place infested with rats, that diagnosis becomes more probable. Leptospirosis is espeically recorded among farmers, fishermen, miners and workers in rice fields, dairies and abattoirs. During the war in Vietnam, in the 1960s and 70s, it was the leading cause of acute fever among American soldiers. Gratz holds this worldwide infection to be the most prevalent of rodent-borne diseases.

The organism of leptospirosis is a spirochet, which is a rather odd kind of bacterium. Spriochaets often live in the kidney tubles of mammals and emerge in their urine. Once excreted, they can survive for some time in mud or dirty water. From there they can enter the human skin, expeically if it is cut or abraded."

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And on Page 62:

"We can now also see more clearly why rats have been called diabolically clever, and why today we say that they are nothing of the sort. This conclusion was foreseen in 1898 by an iconoclastic American psychologist, E.L. Thorndike (1874-1949). (I owe the quotation to Jeff Galef.)

Most of the books do not give us a psychology, but rather a eulogy of animals. They have all been about animal intelligence, never about animal stupidity . . . [They illustrate] the well-nigh universal tendency in human nature to find the marvelous wherever it can."

Other pages that might have Bridgewater Canal images

• [Overview of the Lab and Surrounds

• Summer 1999 Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory

• Evening Ramble, Daresbury Laboratory, Firs/Woodland and Countryside

• Spring Wild Flowers growing around Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, England

• Wildlife (Fauna!) around Daresbury Laboratory

• Bridgewater Canal between Moore, Daresbury Laboratory and Runcorn

• Living Like a King Session: Hatton Arms, Hatton, 22nd Sep 1999

• Early Spring Meadows around Daresbury Lab and Hatton Arms

• Spring 2000 Sunset Over Runcorn

• An Early Autumn (1999) walk around the Daresbury Firs/woodland and Village

• Sunset over Runcorn - 22nd April 2000

• Sunset over Runcorn - 23rd April 2000

• Sunset over Runcorn and Daresbury - 26th April 2000

• Swans, Moore Village and Sunset - 27th April 2000

• Spring Flowers, Herons,to Murdishaw, Runcorn

• Spring Flowers, Daresbury Firs and public path to Moore

• First Buttercups around Daresbury and Canal

• Sunset Over Runcorn - 6th May 2000

• Spring Flowers, Canal, Cows, Ducks and Swan of Daresbury

• Evening ramble, Daresbury Firs, Moore Village and Sunset

• Evening Ramble, Darebsury Firs, Moore and hazy Sunset

• Spring Flower photos, Bridgewater Canal - 10th May 2000

• To the Hatton Arms via Daresbury Village - 11th May 2000

• Swans, Flowers around the Bridgewater Canal - 13th May 2000

• Evening ramble, flowers, Beamline 9.2 and Pub - 13th May 2000

• Spring Flowers after Spring Rain - 17th May 2000

• Flowers and Duckings of Daresbury - 19th May 2000

• Dawn and New Spring Flowers - 20th May 2000