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mind of the traveller endeavours to evade Atcli objefts, 
and pleafe itfelf with the fancied images of verdant plains, 
purling dreams, and happy groves, to which vve were ap¬ 
proaching : whilft Wfc were thus engaged, unexpectedly 
the fcene opened, and, from fuch a horrid wild, gave us 
a profpeft as delightful as the other was difgufling. Over 
a rugged and rocky foreground, we looked upon Stane- 
more-dale in front: her verdant meadows cheered the’feye ; 
her fweet fequeftered cottages, hergraffy plains, aHd little 
ihades of fycamores, feemed enchanting, as their beauties 
were enhanced by the deformity From which they had ef- 
caped. On the right hand a mountain driles, hiding its 
grey head and naked brow in clouds ; the (ides are barren 
rocks, in whofe chinks afew fhruhsare feen clinging, and call 
a tint of green to variegate the grey precipice. On a wild 
and forlorn fituation, in an opening on the (ide of this 
mountain, Helbeck-hall is defcribed, covered with trees: 
fell its profpeft is barrennefs ; the voice of water-falls, 
breezes mourning in the branches of the coppice, or faf¬ 
fing in the Allures of the rock, its mufic ; the deep fhadows 
render it gloomy, and overhanging vapours damp and 
dreary. Yet Helbeck has its beauties : it contrails with 
the vale beneath, where the extenfive plain reaches the 
very bounds of Cumberland, whofe lofty mountains we 
perceived, tinged with blue vapours, and mixing their 
i'ummits with the iky. In the fore-ground lay Brough, 
whofe ancient caille, formerly the feat of the Pembroke 
family, afforded a noble objeft : around which, rich mea¬ 
dows, plots of ripening corn, fparkling fheets of water 
feen through the trees which decked their margins, the 
windings of each brook, little groves of afli and fycamore, 
fantailically difperfed and intermixed with villages and 
cots, formed the beauties of the vale; on this hand ex¬ 
tending towards Kerby-Stephen, on that to Dufton, and 
in front as far as Penrith Beacon.” 
Rookby-hall, five miles from Bowes, is a beautiful mo¬ 
dern building, in the Italian (file, of veined freeftone, ereft- 
ed by Sir Thomas Robinfon. This houfe is placed in a 
fine level lawn, furrounded with plantations, juft at the 
conflux of the rivers Greta and Tees: the banks of the 
Greta are laid out in elegant walks, and covered with (late¬ 
ly trees. Nature has bellowed vaft bounties on this fitu¬ 
ation ; one of the walks is bounded, on one hand, by per¬ 
pendicular rocks, forty feet in height, covered with the 
Ipreading boughs of large oaks, which impend from the 
fummits of the cliff: on the other, the river, banked in with 
hewn (lone, falls from rock to rock with hoarfe murmurs, 
where deep caldrons are worn in the (lone by the inceffant 
rolling of flints moved by the dream, which give an un¬ 
common agitation to the water. On the oppofite (hore, lofty 
banks and rocks arife, planted with various trees of diffe¬ 
rent hues, (hade above (hade, and crowned with the anci¬ 
ent tower of Morton. Nothing can excel the noblenefs 
and folemnity of this walk; it is calculated for contem¬ 
plation and religious rhapfody : every mind mud feel the 
influence of the fcene, and, forgetting the giddy engage¬ 
ments of lighter pleasures, yield to fublimer fentiments. 
Rookby-hall indeed is a repofitory of curiofities : Sir Tho¬ 
mas Robinfon had a fine tafte, and indulged it to a degree 
of prodigality, of which this manfion remains a monument. 
The profpefts from Rookby-park are noble, though con¬ 
fined ; to the weft, the river falls, by innumerable cafcades, 
through a rocky channel, and is feen for the extent of a 
mile. The rocks which border the dream and the decli¬ 
vities are crowned with wood, forming a noble avenue ter¬ 
minated by the ruins of Althelftan abbey, which appears, 
folemnly embowered/in a deep grove of oaks and (yca- 
morcs. The rifing grounds, on each fide of the river, 
confift of the richeft meads : the view to the eaft, by the 
brink of the dream, confifts of level lawns, fpreading forth 
a fequeftered fcene, (hut in on one hand by hills of culti¬ 
vated land, on the other by rocks of vaft height overhang¬ 
ing the river, and fiirmounted by (lately oaks. 
Raby-caftle, a few miles front Bowes, is fituated in the 
midft of a mod extenfive territory, and is the ancient feat 
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of the Darlington family. The caftle is a noble maffy 
building of its kind, uninjured by any modern ftrokes in- 
confiftent with the general tafte Of the edifice; but, (imply 
magnificent, it (h ikes by its magnitude. The building it¬ 
felf, befides the courts, covers an acre of land. The 
fouth front is very beautiful; the centre of it is from a 
delign of Inigo Jones. The park and ornamental grounds 
around the caftle, are difpofed with great tafte, and the 
lawns, woods, plantations, See. are remarkably pifturefque.. 
BOW-GRACE, f. in the fea language, a frame or 
compofition of old ropes or junks of cables, ufed to be 
laid out at the bows, (terns, and (ides, of (hips, to pre- 
ferve them from the flakes of ice, chiefly when they fail 
iii high north or fouth latitudes. 
BOW-HAND,/ The hand that draws the bow.— 
Surely he (hoots wide on the bow-hand, aiid very far from 
the mark. Spenfer. 
BOWL,/! \_budin, Welfh ; which (ignifies, according 
to Junius, any thing made of horn, as drink-cups anciently 
were. It is pronounced bole.~\ A veffel to hold liquids, ra¬ 
ther wide than deep ; diftinguiflied from a cup, which is 
rather deep than wide.—If a piece of iron be faftened on 
the fide of a bowl of water, a loadltone, in a boat of cork, 
will make unto it. Brown. 
While the bright Sein, t’ exalt the foul, 
With fparkling plenty crowns the bowl, 
And wit and focial mirth infpires. Fenton. . 
The hollow part of any thing.—If you are allowed a large 
filver fpoon for the kitchen, let half the bowl of it be worn 
out with continual feraping. Swift. —A bafin, or fountain. 
But the main matter is fo to convey the water, as it never 
(lay either in the bowl or in the ciftern. Bacon. 
BOWL,/! [bonle, Fr.J A round mafs, which may be 
rolled along the ground.—Though that piece of wood, 
which is now a bowl, may be made fquare, yet, if round- 
nefs be taken away, it is no longer a bowl. Watts. 
To BOWL, v. a. To roll as a bowl. To pelt with any 
thing rolled : 
Alas! I had rather be fet quick i’ th’ earth, 
And bowl'd to death with turnips. Shakfpeare. 
BOWL'DER-STONES,/! Lumpsor fragments of (lone 
or marble, broke from the adjacent cliffs, and rounded by 
being tumbled to and again by the water; hence their name. 
BOWLE (John), rector of Idminfton near Salilbury, 
was born the 26th of Oftober, 1725, and was defeended 
from Dr. John Bowie biftiop of Rochefter, was of Oriel 
college Oxford, where he toqk the degree of M. A. the 
6th of July, 1750. He had the honour to be one of the 
firft deteftors of Lauder’s forgeries, and according to Dr. 
Douglas’s account had the juftell claim to be confidered 
as the original deteftor of that ungenerous critic. He 
was the author of a Letter to Dr. Percy, and editor of Don 
Quixote in Spanifh ; and of Marfton’s Satires, and Come 
old poetry in Englifti. He died Oftober 26, 1788, having 
that day completed his 63d year. 
BOW-LEG'GED, adj. Having crooked legs. 
BOWL'ER,/! He that playS at bowls. 
BOW-LINE, or Bowling, a rope faftened near the 
middle of the leech, or perpendicular edge of the fquare 
fails, by three or four fubordinafe parts called bridles. It 
is ufed when the wind is fo unfavourable that the fails 
muff be all braced fideways, orclofe hauled to the wind* 
in this fituation the bow-lines are employed to keep the 
"weather or windward edges of the principal fails tight, 
forward, and (leady, without which they would always be 
(hivering, and rendered incapable of fervice. To check the 
bow-line is to (lacken it when the wind becomes large. 
BOWI.'ING,/! The art of playing at bowls. This 
game is praftifed on bowling-greens. The (kill of bowl¬ 
ing depends much on a knowlege of'the ground, and the 
right choice of a bowl (uitable to it. The terms ufed in 
bowling are, to bowl wide, which is when the bias does not 
hold; or is not ftrong enough ; narrow, when it is too 
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