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A Guide to the Lakes, in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire
A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland Westmorland and Lancashire Author:Thomas West 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: 'and handfome, the ftreets are well paved, and 'thronged with inhabitants, 'bufied in a prof- perous trade to 'Guinea and the Weft-Indies. A- long a fine quay, n... more »oble ware-houfes are built. And when it '(hall pleafe tliofe concerned, to deepen the thoals in the river, fhips of great burthen may lie before them; for at prefent we o'rily Tee, in that part of 'the river, fuch as do riot exceed 250 'tons. The air of Lancajler is falubrious, the environs pleafarit, the inhabitants wealthy, courteous, hofpitable, and polite. Ihe church is a hand- Ibme Gothic ftrufture ; but the infide view of the beautiful cafl window is obftrufted by a tall fkreen behind the altar, and the reft of the- church is further hurt by a multiplicity of pews. The only remains it has of ancient furniture are a few turn-up feats, carved in the ftyle of the times when it belonged to the priory of St. Martin of Sayes in France. Some of the carvings arc fine, but the figures are either grofs or grotefque. This building ftands on the crown of an eminence, below the caflle, from which it a C 4 is with a noble portico. An elegant fteeple has been alfo lately built to the chapel (after a defign of Mr. Harrifon) by a donation of the late Mr. T. Bowes, which, with the turret on the exchange, add much to the pleafing, or rather- ilriking appearance this town has at a diftance, on account of the caftle, church, and the confpicuous fuuation of fe, reral good ftone houfes. is only feparated by the moat. The views from the church-yard are extenfive and pleafant, particularly the grand and much admired profpeft of the northern mountains. The chapel is a neat and convenient place of worfhip. Th,ere are alfo in this town, prefbyterian, quaker,' and methodift meeting-houfes, and a Romim chapel. When the prefent incommodio...« less