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W YORK
BRARY

LENCX AND

IN FOUNDATIONE

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENEX AND
TILEEN FOUNDATIONS,

The cathedral * is very imperfect, Cromwel having pulled down part to build barracks with the materials. There remains fome portion that was built in the Saxon times, with very maffy pillars and round arches. The rest is more modern, faid to have been built in the reign of Edward III. who had in one part an apartment to lodge in. The arches in this latter building are sharp pointed: the East window remarkably fine.

The manufactures of Carlisle are chiefly of printed linnens, for which near 3000 1. per annum is paid in duties. It is also noted for a great manufacture of whips, which employs numbers of children.

Salmons appear in the Eden in numbers fo early as the months of December and January; and the London, and even Newcastle markets, are supplied with early fifh from this river: but it is remarkable, that they do not vifit the Ek in any quantity till April, notwithstanding the mouths of both these waters are at a small diftance from each other. I omitted in its proper place an account of the Newcastle fishery, therefore infert here the little I could collect relating to it. The fish seldom appear in the Tyne till February : there are about 24 fisheries on the river, befides a very confiderable were, and the whole annual capture amounts to about 36,000 fish. I was informed that once the fish were brought from Berwick, and cured at Newcastle; but at prefent, notwithstanding all goes under the name of Newcastle Salmon, very little is taken there, in comparifon of what is caught in the Tweed.

• Begun by Walter, deputy of thefe parts, under William Rufus; but the new choir was not founded till about 1354

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PENRITH.

ANTIENT COLUMNS.

The country near Carlile confifts of fmall enclosures; but a little farther on, towards Penrith, changes into coarfe downs. On the Eaft, at a distance, are ridges of high hills running parallel to the road, with a good inclofed country in the intervening space. Above Penrith is a rich inclofed tract, mixed with hedge-row trees and woods. On the South-Weft, a profpect of high and craggy mountains. After I left Lockerby, Nature, as if exhausted with her labors, in the lofty hills of Scotland, seemed to have lain down and repofed herself for a confiderable space; but here began to rise again with all the fublimity of alpine majesty.

PENRITH is an antient town, feated at the foot of a hill: is a great thoroughfare for travellers; but has little other trade, except tanning and a small manufacture of checks. In the church-yard is a monument of great antiquity, confifting of two stone pillars eleven feet fix inches high, and five in circumference in the lower part, which is rounded; the upper is fquare, and tapers to a point: in the fquare part is fome fret-work, and the relievo of a cross; and on the interior fide of one is the faint reprefentation of fome animal, Both these stones are mortifed at their lower part into a round one: they are about fifteen feet afunder; the space between them is inclofed on each fide with two very large but thin femicircular ftones; fo that there is left a walk between pillar and pillar of two feet in breadth. Two of thefe leffer ftones are plain, the other two have certain figures at prefent fcarce intelligible.

Thefe ftones feem to have been monumental, and are evidently chriftian, as appears by the crofs on the capital: fable fays that they were to perpetuate the memory of Cefarius, a hero of gigantic ftature, whofe body extended from stone to stone: but it is probable,

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