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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
Lumley Castle , the ancient seat of the Earls of Scarborough, is now 
uninhabited; but it is in a most commanding situation, and it might 
easily be made one of the finest residences in the country. 
September 23 .—Chester le Street —where we passed the night in a 
curious old town, remarkable for its ancient church, with its aisle of tombs, 
each ornamented with a stone effigy of one of the ancient Barons Lumley, 
from the Conquest to the first Earl of Scarborough, who died in the reign 
of Elizabeth. We afterwards proceeded to a beautiful modern villa, 
called the Hermitage, with a very fine glen. This place has great 
natural advantages; and it might be very greatly improved, and indeed 
rendered one of the finest places in the county, by the aid of a little art 
judiciously applied. At this place the natural beauties of the glen on the 
one hand, and Lumley Castle on the other, supply everything that can be 
desired in the way of prospect. 
Durham .—The finest view we obtained of the Castle and Cathedral of 
this ancient city enchanted me, and I was still more delighted on taking 
a nearer view. We left the carriage at the bridge, and proceeded along a 
terrace walk cut in the rock, and looking down upon the river, with the 
castle and the beautiful cathedral towering above our heads, and a fine 
wooded bank interspersed with villas on the opposite side. After 
pursuing this walk till we reached a second bridge, we turned towards 
the town, and passing along a steep and narrow street, we entered 
through an ancient gateway, into a square, in the centre of which was an 
ornamental conduit. Turning to the right from this, we entered some 
ancient cloisters, round which we walked, and saw through some iron 
bars the interior of the cathedral. Not satisfied with this view, however, 
we proceeded to the regular entrance, and carefully examined every part 
of this superb edifice; visiting, particularly, our Lady’s Chapel or 
Galilee, and venturing to overstep the line traced by the ungallant St. 
Cuthbert, in the body of the cathedral itself, beyond which, in ancient 
times, it is said, no woman was permitted to advance. After seeing the 
cathedral, we proceeded to the castle, where we saw the coffin of St. 
Cuthbert, looking very much like an old chest for sacramental plate; and a 
very curious old Saxon gallery, which was discovered a year or two ago, 
plastered up on both sides, in the centre of what appeared to be only an 
immensely thick wall. As several of the partition walls of the castle still 
appear of enormous thickness, it is very probable that if their outer cover¬ 
ing were removed, many other interesting remains of antiquity would be 
discovered. 
Sherburne Hospital is a quadrangular building, forming a kind of college 
for a number of old men. There is a very pretty chapel and burying- 
