table is covered with old books, in the wood 

 and leather binding of the middle ages. The 

 following are the titles of a few : — " Book of 

 Psalms," in Latin, printed at Paris in 1488. 

 " Saint Augustine on the Trinity," also in 

 Latin, 1489. " Latimer's Sermons," 1562. 

 "Black-letter Bible," 1613; and, most inter- 

 esting of all, as showing the perseverance of 

 the monkish pen men, a neatly written " Ma- 

 nuscript Church Catechism," in 233 closely- 

 penned pages, by C. B. Modest man ! he 

 might have done future generations the kind- 

 ness of telling them the full name of him who, 

 in 1622, spent so many days and months in 

 such a task. 



Here, too, we have battle-axes and other 

 weapons of the ancient Celts, made mostly 

 of stone, but a few good ones in bronze. 

 Besides these, there are seven small cases of 

 coins, some of them of great beauty. I can 

 merel} T refer now to a gun, used in France 

 before the invention of the double- barrel ; 

 and if not identical with, at least very similar 

 in principle to the far-famed " Colt's Revol- 

 ver." Of course there are some hundreds 

 more of choice objects, generally looked at 

 with veneration as antiquities ; but as my 

 antiquarian researches date long before the 

 time of the Celts and Romans, I turn to 

 real antiquities in the shape of fossils. Of 

 these there is a by no means contemptible 

 show. They consist ofStigmarias — one of 

 exceeding beauty — Calamites, Lepidoden- 

 drons, Sigillarias, Sphenopteris, Neuropteris, 

 Pecopteris, fine Ammonites, and not a few 

 good bivalves. The collection of minerals con- 

 tains, I believe, all the rocky productions of 

 Cumberland, and forms on a small scale, a 

 complete museum of the Economic Geology 

 of the district. 



Besides these, there are other relics which 

 form a transition between geological and his- 

 torical antiquities. These consist of skulls and 

 other bones, dug from the diluvium ; there are 

 two heads of bisons from near Carlisle; a third 

 from Hawick, in Scotland ; and a fine pair of 

 red deer antlers, from Ennerdale. Few in 

 these days but have read or heard of the 

 famous musical stones ; and I dare say compa- 

 ratively few know that the first set put up 

 were the work of Peter Crossthwaite. On a 

 wooden stand, which bears testimony to the 

 time it has occupied its corner in the principal 

 room, are sixteen pieces of Hornblende slate, 

 arranged in order, headed by a card half a 

 century old. There is an inscription on it, in 

 the handwriting of the discoverer, of which the 

 following is the first paragraph : — " Here lie 

 16 stones, reduced to music by the author of 

 this Museum, who found them in the bed of 

 Greta River, from 12 to 18 furlongs east of 

 Keswick." 



Leaving six-legged rats, the double-headed 

 calf, red Indians' heads, vertebrae of whales, 



boa-constrictors, sharks' jaws, sea-unicorns' 

 horns, and the pectinate snout of the saw-fish, 

 we turned into a room known as Captain 

 Wordsworth's, from the fact of most of the 

 objects contained in it having been presented 

 by that gentleman, (a brother of the poet), to 

 the museum. The most conspicuous object 

 in it, is a large albatross, brought by him 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. The room 

 also contains a Polar bear, although indiffer- 

 ently stuffed ; and many other interesting 

 articles, which I could name ; but as I have no 

 intention of writing a catalogue, I refrain, 

 leaving more unmentioned than my persever- 

 ance, or the reader's patience, would sanc- 

 tion. And now, while this little flash of 

 sunshine lasts, let us run up the street to the 

 Town Hall, first of course entering our names 

 in the visitors' book, among many illustrious, 

 and not a few, as yet, unknown autographs. 



The Town-hall of Keswick is rather an old 

 piece of work, belonging to no particular 

 order. It partakes, in its upper part, of the 

 appearance of a church, which resemblance 

 is heightened by a steeple with a one-handed 

 clock ; while the lower, or ground flat, is no- 

 thing more than a dismal shed. Never mind 

 the building, but get inside ; and here a large 

 table of irregular form, presenting no fewer 

 than nine sides, forms the base-work of the 

 model; and supports, on a space about 

 thirteen feet by nine, some twelve hundred 

 square miles of country; ranging from Seber- 

 ghan on the north to Rampside, beyond Fur- 

 ness Abbey on the south ; and from the long 

 straggling town of Shap, famous for the pecu- 

 liar granite of the district, on the east ; ex- 

 tending to Egremont on the west, the former 

 distance being fifty-one miles, and the latter 

 thirty-seven. From this it will be noticed, 

 that the scale is three inches to the mile ; a 

 rule applying to its perpendicular dimensions, 

 as well as its horizontal. It is usual for us, 

 on looking at a model, as well as a map, to 

 take up our position at the south end ; a habit 

 in all likelihood, acquired at school, — and on 

 doing so, the first thing which strikes us in 

 Mr. Flint offs model is, the natural outline 

 formed by the aqueous element, which sur- 

 rounds one-third of the country shown ; 

 stretching from Netherton, to the mouth of 

 the Trent. Two large estuaries here pour 

 into the sea ; that on the right being the 

 river Leven, wdiich receives the waters of the 

 lakes, Grasmere, Rydal, and Windermere; 

 and this on the left, the Duddon ; which forms 

 a fine natural bay, with an entrance of about 

 a mile in width. No fewer than sixteen lakes 

 are seen, besides fifty-two smaller pieces of 

 water known as Tarns ; some of them of great 

 beauty, and situated so much as 2,000 feet or 

 more above the level of the sea. 



The great feature however, presented by 

 this comprehensive view of the country, is the 



