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The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association was held at Penrith on 

 the 5th and 6th of June, 1884. After hearing the President's Address, which 

 was delivered in the Mission Rooms, a company representing all the Societies 

 affiliated to the Association, met at the Crown Hotel, where about sixty 

 members sat down to lunch. 



At 2 p.m. the party, joined by a further contingent, entered the waggonettes 

 and drove through Lowther Park to the Castle. The drive through the 

 beautifully- wooded scenery alongside the Lowther was much enjoyed, as the 

 weather was all that could be wished, and tlie trees were in their full spring 

 beauty. Arrived at the Castle, the visitors were conducted through the 

 building, and shewn through the picture-galleries, which contain a large 

 number of paintings by Hogarth, as well as examples of Titian, and several 

 other masters. In the galleries of antiquities the \'isitors inspected some 

 interesting examples of Roman and other remains found at different times at 

 Plumpton, Old Carlisle, and other places in the district. 



After examining the magnificent collections of plate, the visitors passed 

 through the Library and other apartments, and then entered the gardens, 

 which were just beginning to assume their full summer beauty. From the 

 gardens the next place visited was the well-known Terrace-walk. This point, 

 on a fine day, commands a view of several miles of the valley of the Lowther, 

 with the well-wooded scenery extending along the river, from Askham upwards 

 in the one direction, and in the other past Whale and Helton, through the lower 

 escarpment of the Mountain Limestone, out past Knipe Scar, to near Brampton, 

 with the volcanic rocks of the Hawes Water- and Mardale-area, rising into 

 mountain in the distance. The Terrace itself, like many others in the same 

 Park, consists of a natural platform of rock, resulting from the unequal power 

 of resistance to mechanical erosion offered by one of the limestones of the 

 Carboniferous Series as compared with the thin beds of sandstone and shale 

 that come between them. 



From the Terrace the party came back by way of the Conservatories, whence 

 one section returned direct to Penrith, while the remainder drove to Brougham 



