whose eye the house and grounds were very much improved. At Leighton furnace, which is eleven miles and a half from Lancaster, the road enters Westmorland, and at twelve and a half passes through the beautiful village of Beetham. On the river at Beetham mill there is a singular sort of water-fall, well worthy the tra veller's attention. Beetham Hall is said to be a fine ruin, but it has not been seen by the writer. From Beetham to Millthorpe a mile and a half, making this rout from Lancaster fifteen miles, the same distance as by Burton.

But the road from Lancaster to Millthorpe by Warton, though not so well made, is infinitely more pleasant in the prospects from it, than that through Burton,

Millthorpe is a pleasantly situated little market-town, near which is Dalham Tower, the seat of Daniel Wilson, Esq., "in which there are several elegancies, and more capabilities."

Heversham*, half way between Millthorpe and Levens, is situate on a fine elevation, in a

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* On Thursday morning, July 4th, 1816, died at Calgarth, his seat on the banks of Windermere, in his 79th year, Richard Watson, the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Landaff, D. D. Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge; formerly Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, as well as Professor of Chemistry to the University. Dr. Watson has been long and deservedly reckoned amongst the literary ornaments of this nation, being esteemed for the purity of his classical taste, the ease of his style and conversation, his scientific acquirements and his abilities, as well as the

rich, agricultural, and well wooded country: it is a beautiful village, and has a fine Gothic church. In this district there are many exquisite sea and land views.

Levens Hall, built in the reign of Elizabeth, was the ancient seat of the Bellinghams, from whom it was purchased by Colonel Graham before the Revolution, and afterwards passed into

polite manner shown in his controversial writings. The neigh bouring parish of Heversham has the honour of numbering him amongst its natives. He was the son of a poor but worthy Clergyman, who brought up a numerous family on the slender stipend of Cross Crake chapel, and the profits of Heversham grammar school, where he made many excellent scholars. Poverty, however, did not prevent him from sending his son to the University; but the narrowness of the young man's means obliged him to make his appearance at Cambridge in the then rustic dress of his native country, where his blue woollen stockings and home-spun coat, procured him the name of the Westmorland Phenomenon amongst those of his contemporaries who had more reason to be proud of their cloaths than of their learning. This appellation, though intended as a mark of ridicule, proved prophetic of the youth's future career in literature. The high esteem in which Dr. Watson was held by the University of Cambridge, appears from the indulgence granted him during his latter years, of delegating the duties of his Professorship to a Deputy, which we believe to be the only instance of non-residence ever permitted to the divinity professor. His principal writings are his Tracts, Apology for the Bible, popular Essays on Chemistry, in five volumes, with a variety of political pamphlets, which were read with avidity at the time of their publication. The Bishop, we are credibly informed, has imitated the great Dr. Burnet, in compiling the history of his own times, with directions to publish it after his death. The work cannot fail to prove an acceptable legacy to the lovers of history, and when the party spirit and political prejudices of the present age have ceased to inflame the minds and blind the judgment of mankind, the volume will prove a source of information to the future historian who shall undertake to write the eventful reign of George the third; the transactions of which will, in all probability, have a degree of influence on the affairs of Europe and the civilized world in times of the remotest posterity.-Kendal Chronicle.

the Suffolk branch of the Norfolk family by marriage. The place is highly picturesque.

In the south of Westmorland are several pre cipitous rocks of limestone,-as Farlton Knot, near Burton; Underbarrow Scar, near Kendal; Whitbarrow Scar; and Witherslack Scar; the latter "is a remarkable precipice of limestone rock, formed in some places like a fortress."

The road from Levens Bridge to Newby Bridge is occasionally rich in distances; but Newby Bridge, which will be more fully spoken of hereafter, has several fine views in its neighbourhood.

From Newby Bridge to Ambleside, on the eastern side of Windermere, the changes of scenery are many and beautiful as far as Bowness; but much finer from Bowness to Ambleside.

From Lancaster to Kendal through Burton it is twenty-two miles, and from Kendal to Ambleside fourteen miles; that is, from Lancaster to Ambleside through Kendal thirty-six miles.

From Lancaster to Newby Bridge by Millthorpe, Levens, and Witherslack, twenty-eight miles-and from Newby Bridge to Ambleside fourteen miles; or forty-two miles from Lancaster to Ambleside by Millthorpe and Newby Bridge; making the distance from Lancaster to Ambleside by Newby Bridge six miles more than by Kendal.

The road from Lancaster to Burton has been already spoken of: but from Burton there are two excellent roads to Kendal, one by Millthorpe, through which place some of the northern coaches pass daily; but as this is not the proper post road, that by Millthorpe has been mentioned as a deviation from the great road, and described only to Levens Bridge.

From Levens Bridge, which is five miles from Kendal, the face of the country is rather agreeable; Sizergh Hall, the ancient family seat of the Stricklands, of Sizergh, stands on the left about three miles from Kendal.

This Hall was built in the reign of Edward III., and is the finest specimen of the ancient castellated Hall in Westmorland ever seen by the writer; who would exceedingly regret that he had never got one drawing of it, did he not look forward to the pleasure of making many. With the aid of the splendid woods by which it is surrounded, its occasional arrangements are grand beyond any thing in the neighbouring country.

The great north road through Burton and to Kendal, eleven miles, is by End Moor and Cross Crake. Some parts of the road are pleasant, with occasional eye-flights to the distant country, but in point of interest it is certainly inferior to that by way of Millthorpe.

Kendal

Is situate on the banks of the river Kent (anciently Can), from whence it derives its name. It contains about 8000 inhabitants, who are principally employed in various manufactures. They are a frugal, industrious people, and many of them have risen to a considerable degree of opulence by their assiduous attention to busi

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The town is intersected by four principal streets; one of which lies north and south, making a spacious thoroughfare of one mile in length, which leads northward to the beautiful lakes of Westmorland and Cumberland: two others are directed eastward, and, joining, form the road to Penrith the fourth leads westward, and is the road to Ulverston. The houses are built of limestone, and once in six or seven years are dashed over with a composition of lime and sand, called rough-cast, which gives them a neat and clean appearance; but there are no magnificent public buildings, and but few elegant private houses. The church is a large Gothic structure, and contains one of the finest organs in the north of England: it has also a peal of ten bells; the two smallest of which were purchased by subscription only in 1816. There is likewise a chapel, situate in the centre of the town, called St. George's Chapel, which was built in