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THOMAS BEWICK. 



This cannot but be noted by the visitor of the present day; and 

 the natural beauty of the spot renders the mind ready to receive a favour- 

 able impression of the house where the father of English wood engraving 

 was brought into the world. But alas ! instead of a neatly kept cot, as might 

 be expected, the "house" is found to be a stall, a covering for useful and 

 picturesque, but at close quarters not too agreeable, animals — a veritable 

 byre with all its unpleasant odours. There is nought but the bare walls 

 which enclose the space occupied by the room of the celebrated Cherryburn ; 

 there is now neither window, fireplace, nor chimney, nothing of any kind 

 to show it once was inhabited by human beings ; merely four plain stone 

 walls, with an opening only at the door, and over it there is written, 

 " Thomas Bewick born here." 



Cherryburn. 



The accompanying cut gives a view of the "house" in its most favourable 

 aspect. The artist and author of "The Tyne," Mr. W. H. Palmer (Messrs. 

 Bell and Sons), has rendered it with all the beauty its surroundings lend, but 



