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the sumptuous feast ; the only music in attendance was perhaps the mumuring burn, 

 the whistling cry of the curlew, the solitary water ouzel, or the whirring wing of 

 the moor game." 



The accompanying sketch map shows the district between Newcastle and 

 Cherryburn. It is " taken from an actual survey, and laid down from a scale 

 of an inch to a mile, by Lieutenant Andrew Armstrong and Son, and engraved 

 by Thomas Kitchin, 1769." The line of railway from the central station at 



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The Tyne Valley, from Newcastle to Cherryburn, in Bewick's Childhood. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne, which passes Prudhoe, is marked in for reference, 

 but otherwise the map represents the country as it was in Bewick's 

 day. The best way to go, for any one wishing to visit Bewick's birthplace, 

 is to take train from Newcastle to Prudhoe station, ten and a half miles ; and 

 after inspecting the fine old ruins of Prudhoe Castle, proceed by road to the 

 village of Eltringham, close to which is Cherryburn House, described in an 

 earlier chapter. Crossing the ferry at Eltringham there is a pleasant walk to 

 Ovingham, Bewick's burial-place, and the traveller can then return to 



