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breweries in good employ; two hair merchants, who, (limited as 
their business may seem to be) are both men of property; and a 
tannery, where some business is done. Yet, as these employ but 
a small portion of the inhabitants, perhaps the manners of no place 
are more strongly or generally stamped with the marks of ease and 
peace. Few are rich, but as few are miserably poor. 
“Whoever wishes to enjoy a social glass is seldom at a loss for 
a companion (here mine host of the Swan comes to the front). A 
regular card assembly during the winter, and small though agreeable 
private parties all the year round, furnish the fair sex with ample 
amusement; whilst two well frequented bowling greens afford 
during the fine weather exercise and amusement to such of the 
males as have no better employment. During the races and 
assizes, a more gay and agreeable place cannot be imagined ; the 
more than usual bustle of those times rousing the inhabitants out 
of that placid dream of existence they at other times enjoy, and 
animating them to a degree of real mirth and festivity rarely met 
with in more populous places.” 
Who does not wish he had lived in Penrith one hundred years 
ago? 
G. AND T. COWARD, PRINTERS, CARLISLE. 
