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A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, by the Author of the Antiquities of Furness
A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland Westmorland and Lancashire by the Author of the Antiquities of Furness Author:Thomas West General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1821 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Hawes-water may be taken the first in the morning, and then cross the mountains by the road to Pooley-bridge for Ulls-water, and return in the evening to PENRITH. So much is already said of this town, that little remains now to be added here. The situation is pleasant, and open to the south. It is tolerably well built, and rather a genteel than a trading town. The town's people are polite and civil, and the inns commodious and well served. Saving the few resident families, the life of this town is its being a thorough-fare. For, although seated in the midst of a rich and fruitful country, few manufacturers have been induced to fix here. Before the interest of the sister kingdoms became one, Penrith was a place of uncertain tranquillity, and too precarious for the repose of trade and manual industry ; being better circumstanced for a place of arms and military exercise. Yet since this happy change of circumstances, no more than one branch of tanning, and a small manufacture of checks have taken place. This must be owing either to want of attention in people of property, or of (Bcreda, Rav. Chor. Vereda, Anton. Inter.) industry of the inhabitants. The latter is not to be supposed; for ihe spirit of agriculture, introduced by the gentlemen of the environs, is in as flourishing a way amongst the farmers of this neighbourhood, as in other parts of the kingdom. The superfluities of the market are bought up for Ken- dal, where much of that produce is wanting which superabounds here. The most remarkable objects at Penrith, are the beacon, on the summit of the hill above the town, and the awful remains o...« less