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where there is intelligent energy amongst the 

 people, are as surely productive of manu- 

 factories, as the mountain fells and wholesome 

 pastoral valleys are of flocks and herds. 



AMICUS. And this is Egremont through 

 which we are now passing. Its somewhat 

 trist appearance, with those castellated ruins, 

 of imposing aspect on the adjoining mount, 

 is in accordance with its name. Surely it 

 is a declining place. It reminds me a little, 

 in its single long street, and those thatched 

 dark-roofed dwellings, breaking the line of 

 slate-roofed houses, of an Irish country town. 



PISCATOE. Like the castle, I believe it has 

 seen better days; and will probably, though 

 not so with the castle, see them again, when 

 the railway is completed; but even now its 

 material condition may be better than it ap- 

 pears, for it is supported by industry, and 

 is not without productive trades, especially 

 tan-yards. 



AMICUS. You spoke of Egremont's fame 

 in poetic story : what of it ? 



PISCATOR. That fame is connected with 

 the history of the castle and its earlier pos- 

 sessors, the Lucys. The most interesting le- 



