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tening. This I mention, lest, from having 

 seen no grave-stones in its churchyard, you 

 might come to the wrong conclusion that they 

 are there dispensed with, which I believe is 

 no where the case in the Lake District. 



AMICTJS. Even short as our stay was at 

 Strands, I did not neglect the churchyard, nor 

 fail to observe what you speak of. Another 

 thing I saw which pleased me was that in the 

 list of those on the church door liable to fill 

 parish offices, all but one were landed pro- 

 prietors, yeomen, or, in the language of the 

 country, statesmen. In crossing the fell, the 

 driver called it " an unstinted common." What 

 does that mean ? 



PISCATOK. A common in the strictest sense of 

 the word, in contradistinction to a stinted one, 

 in which there is some kind of division or 

 limited right. This fell, I have been informed, 

 belongs to Calder Bridge, and being "unstinted," 

 any one living there possessing but the smallest 

 portion of land may send on the common as 

 many sheep, horses, or cattle, as he pleases. 

 This is a great boon, and as such I believe 

 is peculiar to England, and may have had 

 some influence in checking that abject poverty 



