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by the hangman, and suffered death at the common place of execution under the castle wall. The chief offences appear to be the result of the circumstances of the times forgery and sedition. A view of great grandeur, diversity, and extent, is commanded from the towers of the castle; and one little less extensive from the walk before the walls.

As our route did not carry us to Hornby, we made a little digression from it, in order to visit a spot pointed out to us by the celebrated Mr. Grey, as one of the finest views in England, about three miles from Lancaster, on the road to Hornby. On our way thither, we passed under a vast arch, bestriding the turnpike, and bearing on its broad back the grand canal before spoken of, which is received a little to the right, and carried over the Leven by one of the finest aqueducts in England, formed of five arches, each seventy feet in the span; the top of the balustrade is sixty feet above the level of the water; 70,000!. was the ex- pellee of this work. The scenery around ;s beau- tiful, and would deserve description, were it not totally eclipsed by that at Mr. Grey's station; a bank in a field a little to the left of the turnpike- road, near the three-mile stone. From this elevated spot, the river Leven appeared at our feet, pursuing his way in a series of meanders through a chain ol

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