Show 1 A Curious Town The most curious town in England is Northwich There is not a straight street nor in fact a straight house in the place every part of it has the appearance of having recently suffered from the visitations of art earthquake Northwich as everyone knows is the I center of the sat industry On nearly all sides of the town are big salt works I with their engines pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of brine every I week At a depth of some 200 or 300 feet are immense subterranean lakes of brine and as the contents of these are pumped and pumped anvay the upper up-per crust of the earth fs correspondingly correspond-ingly weakened and the result is an rx casional subsidence These subsidences have a pulling effect on the nearest buildings which are drawn all ways giving the town an upsidedown appearance ap-pearance |