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surrounded by all the charms of nature, not un- 

 aided by art; the other, Greta Hall, an ar- 

 moury of the mind a library throughout, even 

 the passages, and so orderly and carefully 

 arranged, that even to the most careless ob- 

 server what was seen must have appeared a 

 labour of love. 



AMICTJS. What else is worthy of attention in 

 Keswick ? Judging from South ey's writings and 

 the memoir of his life, I should infer nothing. 



PISCATOR. Though he has been dead only a very 

 few years, the inference, if applicable before, is 

 hardly so now. Philanthropy and intelligence 

 have of late been active here in spite of 

 apathy and ignorance. You saw last night 

 how the town was lighted with gas. We had 

 to step over to-day, in the principal street, 

 the cuttings for laying the pipes for bringing in 

 a supply of water. I before spoke of a museum 

 as being worthy of being seen ; and the more 

 creditable it is, as formed by an individual.* 

 Of more importance are the institutions con- 

 nected with education, as the library, the schools 

 and the Mechanics' Institute, which, on a former 



* The late Mr. Crosthwaite, to whose family it still 

 belongs. 



