70 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



and such are the houses of the same material ; 

 nor are they much elevated into the air, where 

 the battlements are seen above the houses, which 

 argues the wall a serviceable defence. In the 

 midst of the market-place they parade their 

 guards ; and at the north-west end of the city 

 stands their castle, (strong and formidable) upon 

 whose bulky battlements several pieces of can- 

 non are planted, to scatter fury in every quar- 

 ter. There is also a cathedral situated south 

 from the bastions of the castle, worthy any man's 

 description, were it not so torn to tatters that 

 there's little to describe, which only serves now 

 as a monument to gaze at, because impoverish'd 

 by the strokes of time. But the ports and sal- 

 ly ports of this northern fortress are girt about 

 with rocky stone ; and the wash of Eden bathe 

 some of her sconces ; that river, I mean, where 

 Arnoldus fish'd when he slew the trouts. 



Arn. It's very true, the river Eden floats 

 near the skirts, and the fortifications of Carlisle. 

 But then you must consider there's another 

 river, commonly known by the name of Annon, 

 (of a more rapid motion, and more resolute 

 streams) which issues from the famous top of 

 Erricsteen, not far from as famous a mountain 

 called Tintaw. This Annon glides along the 

 southern marshes of Scotland, which afterwards 

 cspouseth with the ocean westward, and gives 



