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'ley-Park, in which, on a rocky eminence, is an artificial Tower; 

 two jaw-bones of a Whale by the entrance, feventeen feet and fix 

 inches long ; alfo two fhoulder-blades of a Whale, three feet, fix 

 inches long, and three feet broad ; an extenfive land and fea- 

 profpecT: from it. The park is full of deer and game. By the 

 road-fide, at a fmall diflance from the Tower, is 



Rotheky, a fmall, but well built, pleafant villa, on a rifing 

 ground, belonging to Sir Walter Calverley Blacket, Bart, who built 

 the Tower, raifed the plantations, and formed the femieircular 

 lake before-mentioned, in imitation of nature. 



From Rotheley, two miles to the eaft, we have a view of 



Long Witton, an irregular villa on an eminence, at the eaft end 

 of which is the feat of William Swinburn, Efq; brother of John 

 Swinburn, of Nenvcajlle, Efq; who was high fheriff of Northumber- 

 land^ 1 75 5. It is a neat ftructure, well flickered to the north by 

 tall foreft trees ; a plantation and fhrubbery on each fide ; a grafs- 

 lawn before it, to the fouth, from which is a moll beautiful and 

 extenfive profpect ; a pleafant walk from it fouthward by a gra- 

 dual defcent for about a mile to a neat garden, under a bank of 

 oaks by a rivulet ; a fmall rill croffing it towards the middle, 

 called, The Den-Burn ; a grafs-terrace by the rivulet, the oppofite 

 banks covered with brufhwood ; about 150 yards of fire-wall in 

 it, producing excellent fruits; a gardener's houfe overlooking it 

 from, the brow of a hill by the road, fafhed, and of grotto-work. - 

 Below it, to the north- eaft, is a winding-path through the bank 

 of oaks to a ridge of rocks, under which are three medical foun- 

 tains, called, Thurfton-vie\\. 



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A little lower down, the rivulet is crofTed by the Roman caufway, 

 .vulgarly called, The Devil 1 ?, caufway, a branch of the Hereman- 



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