ON RIGHT FROM PENRITH. From Ambles. From Penrith. ON LEFT FROM PENRITH. Glencoyn House, an old pic- 11 cr. Glencoyn Beck. 12 A promontory from Birk Fell turesque farm house belonging to Mr Howard. Stybarrow Crag. This rock merely allows room for the road between it and the lake. The Enter Westmorland. cr. Glenridding Beck. 14 cr. Grisedale Beck. Patterdale vill. 15 83 cr. Deepdale Beck. terminates the second reach. The first island, House Holm. Glenridding House, Rev. H. Askew. This stream takes its rise in Keppel Cove and Red Tarns, which lie near the summit of Helvellyn. That mountain may be ascended through this glen.] Place Fell, with a patch of Jcultivated ground on which are two farm houses lying at its base, has a striking effect on the opposite shore. A mountain road, practicable only for horsemen and pedes trians, conducts through Grisedale into Grasmere. There is a good inn at this place, which, if the Tourist have time, should be made his head quarters for some days, as there is much to see in the neighbourhood. Road into Martindale across Deepdale Beck. 163 The road is now through flat meadows on the banks of the stream, to another branch, which flows from Brother's Water. Hartsope Village. Hayes Water, a tarn well known to 18 the angler, lies between High Street and Grey Crag, two miles above Hartsope. Angle Tarn in the same neighbourhood is noted for the superior flavour of its trout. 63 High Hartsope. Enter the common and climb the pass of Kirkstone. 21 whose Church-like frame Gives to the savage Pass its namestands on the right of the road. The Romans are supposed to have marched through this depression on their way northwards from the station at Ambleside. Near the summit, al road diverges on the left into the valley of Troutbeek. At the point of deviation, a small inn has lately been erected. In the descent, which is excessively steep, the views of Windermere and the vale of Ambleside are very fine, Wansfell Pike is on the left, Loughrigg Fell on the right of the vale, The Enter Westmorland. 24 cr. Lowther Bridge. 234 Hackthorpe Hall, also a farmhouse. The birth-place of John) first Viscount Lonsdale. Lowther family have immense 19 possessions in the neighbourhood. Shap, anciently Heppe, a long 16 straggling village. The remains of an abbey, founded in 1150, are a mile to the west on the banks of the Lowther. Only a tower of the Church is standing, but it appears to have been 14 at one time an extensive struc¡ture. A road turns off at Shap to Hawes Water, six miles. Wastdale Head, a granitic 12 mountain, from which blocks, of immense size, have been carfried, by some extraordinary ¡means, into Lancashire and Staffordshire, in one direction, and to the coast of Yorkshire in another, upwards of 100 miles from the parent rock. In order to enter Yorkshire, they must have been drifted over Stainmoor, 1400 feet in elevation. Low-Bridge House, Richard Fothergill, Esq. Three miles north of Kendal from Otter Bank, a beautiful view of that town, with the Castle Hill on the left, is obtained. Clifton Vill. Hackthorpe Vill. Thrimby Vill. Shap Vill. Inns, Greyhound, King's Arms. Shap Toll Bar. Over the elevated moorish tract called Shap Fells. Steep descent under Bretherdale Bank to 1 Carleton. Hail, Cowper, Esq. The Eamont and Lowther are tributaries of the Eden, be-" fore entering which they form a junction. 1 Brougham Hall, the Windsor of the North. In the vicinity is Brougham Castle, a fine ruin, the property of the Earl of Thanet, a descendant from "The stout Lord Cliffords that did fight in France." 23 Upon Clifton Moor, a skirmish took place in 1745, between the retreating troops of the Pre5 tender and the army under the Duke of Cumberland, in which fifteen were killed on both sides. Mention is made of this inci7 dent in Waverley. 9 76 5 21 Shap Spa, a medicinal spring which annually draws a crowd of visitors, is a mile to the east in the midst of the moor. The water is of nearly similar quality to that at Leamington. There is an excellent hotel in the vicinity of the spring. This is the last stage to Kendal. Whinfell Beacon, 1500 feet. Hollow through which thet Sprint from Longsleddale flows. This narrow and picturesque vale commences near Garnett Bridge, and runs six miles northwards, between steep and rocky declivities. A path at its head crosses Gatescarth Pass, having Harter Fell on the left.! and Branstree on the right, into Mardale, at the head of Hawes Water. Benson Knott, 1098 feet. Highest Welsh Mountain, Snowdon, Caernarvonshire 8571 3404 Highest Scottish Mountain, Ben Mucdui, Aberdeenshire 4418 15,781 Highest Mountain in the World, Dhawalagiri, Asia 26,862 This Railway is an undertaking of great magnitude, and exhibits proofs of the surpassing skill of its engineers. Some of its tunnels are of enormous length, passing through the hill ridges that divide Lancashire from Yorkshire, and opening a communication with the northern and eastern parts of the kingdom. * Near Sowerby Bridge is HALIFAX, a well built and opulent town, deriving its importance from the manufacture of cloth, which was commenced here about the middle of the sixteenth century. It has numerous cotton mills and factories, and is the principal mart for stuffs, such as shalloons, serges, &c. for the sale of which an immense building, called the Piece Hall, has been erected, having 315 rooms for the lodgement of goods, which are open for sales once a week. The vicinity of Halifax abounds with coal, and the Calder navigation affords a ready communication with Hull and the east, and the Rochdale Canal with Manchester, Chester, Liverpool, and Lancaster in the west. Halifax has two churches. The old church is a venerable Gothic structure, containing several ancient monuments. There are also several meeting-houses and charitable institutions, a free school, &c. Halifax once had criminal jurisdiction, even in capital cases. N |