:w:Mancunium Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call :w:Manchester Manchester, spins no cotton … The Creek of :w:River Mersey|the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!