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Carpenter, ditto. 



Slate, 2 8 j. a rood, getting and laying*. 



Returning to Penrith, I took the road to 

 Shapp, by Lowther Hall, the feat of Sir 

 James Lowther, Bart. The houfe (it was 

 burat down not many years ago) is not fo 

 ftriking as the plantations, which are de- 

 ligned with much tafte, and of very great 

 extent. Near the road is the new town of 

 Lowther, where Sir James is building a town 

 to confift. of three hundred houfes, for the ufe 



* The lake of Kefwick is famous all over England. 

 Let me firft inform you, that it is by compu- 

 tation ten miles round, of an oblong figure, 

 and inclofed by a prodigious range of moun- 

 tains, of fuch a height that they are cloud- 

 topped for feveral months in the year. The bed 

 way of viewing it is to row around the lake, and 

 land now and then for catching the varieties of 

 the profpecl. 



You walk from the town firft: down to Ccckfhut- 

 hillf, a fmall rifing ground, within the amphi- 

 theatre of mountains, and has been lately planted. 

 The view of the lake from hence is very beautiful : 

 You have a moil elegant meet of water at your 

 feet, of the fineft colour imaginable, fpotted with 

 iflands, of which you fee live, and are high enough 

 to command the water around them. One is in 

 the middle, of about five acres of grafs land, 



1 1 fhould apologize for manv barbarous, and, proba- 

 bly, wronp; fpdt names, for they are taken from the 

 people at Kefwick. I have no where met with them in 

 print. 



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