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of some note, whilst Leyland, Fuhcood, and Kirliham are mere villao-es with 

 cotton-mills. LytJiam, on the northern bank of the Eibble, attracts a few visitors 

 as a sea-bathing place, but the favourite watering-place of Lancashire is Blacl-pool, 

 a little farther north, where the usually flat shore rises into earthy cliffs, from 

 whose summit may be enjoyed a view of the Irish Sea. 



The road from Preston to Lancaster crosses the TVyrc at Garstang, near which 

 is Greenhaigh Castle. 



Lancoster, the political capital of Lancashire, takes its name from the river 

 Lune, or Lun, which washes its walls. It occupies the site of a Roman station — 

 probably Longovicium — and is commanded by a modernised castle, whence may be 

 enjoyed the magnificent panorama presented by the Welsh hiUs, the Isle of Man, 

 and the Cumbrian Mountains. The town manufactures A merican cloth, leather, cocoa 



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matting, furniture, silks, cottons, and waggons. A short railway connects Lancaster 

 with its outlying suburbs of Poulton-Ie- Sands and Morecambe, on Morecambe Bay. 

 Vessels of 300 tons burden are able to ascend the Lune with the tide as far as the 

 quays of Lancaster, the maritime port of which is Fleetwood, a forsaken-looking 

 place at the mouth of the Wyre, connected by a line of steam-packets with 

 Belfast. Near it is the famous school installed in old Rossall House. 



The detached portion of Lancashire " north of the Sands " (that is, those of 

 Morecambe Bay, which are exposed, and can be crossed when the sea retires 

 from the bay) is also known as Furness, from a famous old abbey, beautiful even 

 in its present state of ruin, and seated in a country more beautiful still. Ulcer ston 

 is the nominal capital of this district. A ship canal, lined by furnaces and paper- 

 mills, connects it with Morecambe Bay. John Barrow, the arctic explorer, was 

 born at Ulverston, and a monument has been raised to commemorate him. The 



