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view extends south-west to the hills in the 

 Isle of Anglesea, while to the westward may 

 be discerned the high land in the county of 

 Down. This is perhaps the only place in 

 the kingdom from which, at one view, may 

 be perceived the land of England, Scotland, 

 Ireland, and Wales. 



Broughton, a small market town in Lan- 

 cashire, lies at the foot of the Furness fells, 

 a little above the estuary of the Duddon. 

 The Duddon sands are dry at low water, 

 except in the channel of the stream, which, 

 in passing them as it runs towards the Irish 

 sea, becomes divided into two or three 

 branches. From the foot of Holborn-hill in 

 Cumberland, to Kirby in Lancashire, the 

 road across these sands is about four miles, 

 and is marked, by the carriers and carters 

 who pass it, from one shore to the other with 

 branches of broom ; which they alter as often 

 as a shifting of the sand, or a deepening of 

 the ford, renders a deviation from the former 

 line necessary. The depth of the main stream 



