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paper put in an excuse for refusing my letter, and the Carlisle 

 Journal only admitted it as an advertisement. In the Leisure 

 Hour for August, 1857, was the following passage: — "The ^olian 

 Harp was first invented, or rather discovered in Keswick, by old 

 Peter Crosthwaite, the founder of the Museum. Peter had a fine 

 ear for Nature's harmonies ; and not only did he tune the wild 

 harpings of the mountain winds, but while listening to the wail of 

 the Greta, he learned that its very stones were melodious. And 

 so he gathered now one, and then another, from its rocky bed, 

 and, striking them, his thrilling ear caught the regular rise of one 

 note above another. In this way he formed two octaves, and laid 

 up in his beloved museum the first set of "Musical Stones" which 

 perhaps were ever arranged in England." 



In 1786, Mr. Crosthwaite made a zig-zag road up the front 

 of Latrigg, for the convenience of tourists and the public. He 

 began the road on the 14th of November, and continued to work 

 upon it till it was completed, sometimes working as much as nine 

 hours a day. In his Journal, February 2Sth, 1786, he says, "Took 

 Mary, and surveyed from the foot of new road to the head of the 

 first stairs^ and beat off work by east wind, proceeded to top of 

 Latrigg and Catgill — then dined in the Rocky Alcove, and inspected 

 Skiddaw road, from thence to Spoona-green and the old Casten-up 

 works on the hill above Birkett Wood, where there are many and 

 large on its side, next to Skiddaw in particular." Four years later 

 he records himself and son having wrought upon the same road, 

 and that Robin Lancaster, aged eighty-six years, walked to the 

 top of Latrigg with ease, and told old stories all the way up and 

 down again. " Afterwards Daniel and I made eighteen yards of 

 new road leading from the middle of Spoona-green Head to the 

 first tack, and set the water-course right, which Andrew had again 

 put wrong." In June following, he mentions John Jackson, late 

 of Stenwick, aged eighty-seven years, and old Thomas Ladyman, 

 aged eighty-five years, having accompanied himself and Mr. 

 AUinson to the top of Latrigg. This was all before the Brund- 

 holme enclosure took place, after which Latrigg was ploughed, 

 and the foot-way of course disappeared. About this time he says, 



