text:  A person settling in one of these towns twenty years ago establishing trade buying or building premises in the belief that however business may alter from other causes his geographical position must at all events continue unchanged must be as much astonished as was Macbeth at the migratory propensities of Birnam forest when he perceives that towns a hundred miles down the road have actually walked between him and London; get their town parcels much earlier and have digested and nearly forgotten their newspaper while he is waiting in a fever of expectation to know whether rums is much riz or sugars is greatly fell