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tribunal, and lets in a pleasing distance spotted with woods and gentlemen's seats. An involuntary se- riousness crept upon our minds, aided by these local circumstances, and the recollection of the an- cient appropriation of the spot;

" and awed our souls, " As if the very Genius of the place "Himself appear'd, and with terrific tread l< Stalk'd through his drear domain."

Broome-Hall and Castle make pleasing objects through the vista from Mayburgh. Passing the oid tower of Clifton-Castle, the only remain of the ancient possessions of the Morvilles and Engaynes, we were detained for a moment at the new village of Lowther, to smile at the fantastical incongruity of its plan; which exhibits the grandest features of city architecture, the Circus, the Crescent, and the Square, upon the mean scale of a peasant's cot- tacre. These troupes of houses were built for the: labourers of Lord Lonsdale, but from their desolate deserted appearance it should seem that no sufficient encouragement had been held out to their inhabitants to continue in them. Tn the adjoining carpet-manu- factory, belonging to the above-mentioned peer, and carried on for his exclusive use, we were gratified with the sight of some exquisite work in tins line; the produce o^ the joint labour of Mr. Bloom

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