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seems as if it were cursed. In the solitary 

 cottage by the road side a man hanged himself; 

 and just opposite, where there is the ruin of 

 another cottage, a like act was perpetrated 

 before the dwelling was deserted. It is too 

 much to expect in our pilgrimage on earth, 

 however favoured the region, to find it an 

 Eden, that is, in its primitive blissfulness. Pray 

 excuse the shade which I have thrown into your 

 sunshine. Here is Dunmail-raise : and now we 

 are in Cumberland. That pile of stones marks 

 the boundary of the two counties and a 

 memorable event, the end of the aboriginal 

 British sway, in the time of the Saxon king 

 Edmund, by whom the native chief was here 

 defeated and slain : you will find notice of it in 

 Wordsworth's " Waggoner," that picturesque 

 descriptive poem, a mixture of the comic and 

 pathetic, describing to the life an unhappy 

 waggon journey, and the end of the grand old 

 commodious waggon and team. 



AMICUS. A fit place for battle, rout and 

 slaughter, as " White-Moss," as I think you 

 called the last-mentioned ill-favoured spot, is for 

 acts of violence. This limitary spot, with the 



