ATHERTON, or CHOWBENT, a township in the parish of Leigh, and hundred of West Derby, in Lancashire, 199 miles from London. It is one of those places which has
lation with which they everywhere encompass themselves. They may be compared to a flight of locusts eating up and destroying whatever they alight upon; conferring no benefits in return; and at last, when swept from the face of the earth by some kindly blast, only remembered from the havoc they had committed.
71 Histoire de la Régénération de la Grèce, comprenant le précis des Evénemens depuis 1740 jusqu'en 1824. Par F. C. H. L. Pouqueville, tome iii. p. 556.
grown to wealth and populousness since the extension of the cotton trade. Population in 1801, 3249; in 1811, 3894; and in 1821, 4145.