Excerpt from Atlas Reminiscent

Fully justified the enterprise of Sir Christopher Baynes and his colleagues, one would not have thought that the stormy and distressful years with which the last century Opened, were pro pitious to so large an undertaking. When the Atlas wrote its first policy, the nation was in the throes of its great struggle against Bona parte, and Sir Arthur Wellesley had only just begun the campaign in the Peninsula which won him a peerage. Despite however, the great sacrifices entailed by the war on the people at large, commerce was ¿ourishing in many directions and in the manufacturing districts population and wealth had greatly increased. There was a world-wide demand for our products: even the soldiers of Napoleon marched to Austerlitz in boots made in Northampton, and lay down to die on the terrible Russian steppes in greatcoats from Leeds.

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