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Conversations on England as it was and is
Conversations on England as it was and is Author:Kemp Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONVERSATION II. CUMBERLAND. Subjects:—Boundary. — Size.—Early Inhabitants.—Derivation of Name.— Lakes. — Poet Sonthey. — Borrowdale. — Mine of Plumbago. —... more » Mineral Produce Lakes.—Mountains.—Waterfalls.—Rivers. — Carlisle: its great Antiquity. — William Camden. — Carlisle Castle. — Cathedral. — First Consecration of Burial-Grounds. — Manufactures.—Whitehaven. — Coal and Iron Mines.—Manifestation of Divine Wisdom and Benevolence. — Egre- 1. icmt. Castle. — Ancient Legend. — Cockermouth. — Workington. — Mary, Queen of Scots.—Imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth.—Political Motives.— Penrith. — Drnidical Remains Fortified Towers in Churches. — Present Condition of England. A Summons was unnecessary in order to assemble the young students in their mother's cheerful morning room, on the same day in the following week as that on which the conversation took place which we have related in the previous chapter. A blazing fire shed a genial glow over the apartment, and with the rich crimson drapery of the windows formed a pleasing contrast to the scene without, as the snow was falling heavily. Books and atlases were spread upon the table, around which her children were already seated, when Mrs. Leslie took her place amongst them. " It is quite unnecessary," she observed, " for me to tell you, my dear children, that Cumberland is to form the subject of this morning's conversation, as I know your attention has been directed to it. So, Katie, you may as well at once mention the boundaries and size of the county." KATE. Cumberland is bounded on the north by Scotland and part of Northumberland; on the east by Northumberland, Durham, and Westmoreland; on the south by Westmoreland and Lancashire; and on the west by the Irish Sea and Solway Frith. The greatest length of th...« less