k i n 
Jn order to decorate the garden-fcene, may unite together 
the little ftreams over which the timid Naiads are fuppofed 
to prefide; it may confine them in batons of marble, and 
pour them over ihells of alabafter; but it is God alone 
who can command this river to force itfelf through the 
rnafly thicknefs of thefe trees and bufhes, of which the 
umbrageous front conceals the long chain of rocks fo 
fruitlelsly difputing its panage. Thisimmenfe body of wa¬ 
ters feemsto comedown from the fummitof thefe groves, 
to roll their light foam on the vaulted roof of this foreft, 
and to fpread out.their billows, fparkling with light, on 
the deep curtain of the myfterious woods. On a fudden, 
they lofe themfelves, and fink into the dark profound of 
this wild dodona. If we direft the eye to the left of this 
fublime fcene, there we fee the whole river (as it fliould 
feem) difdaining to call back that multitude of ftreams 
which had defected from it, and which, meandering 
through the immenfe valley, appear obliquely to furrow 
the verdant carpet which oppofes its courl'e ; and, collect¬ 
ing its full ftrength, it delcends in all its majefty down 
the enormous fteps of its favage capitol, leaping from the 
firft to a fecond, from a fecond to a third. The moving 
furface of the ftreatn obtains alfo, from the velocity of 
its fall, a poliih that rivals the pureft cryftal; rounding 
itfelf on the angles into long fteps, formed by the hand 
of nature, and refembling at a diltance enormous filvered 
cylinders. At the bottom of the firft three fteps, the re¬ 
united tops of fotne trees, the items of which are hidden 
by the mafl'es of objects more nearly drawn together in 
the fore-ground, cut the cafcade by a line of verdure ex¬ 
tending its whole breadth. As the river approaches, the 
fheet of water fpreads itfelf ftill more; a terrace of a 
horfe-ftioe form makes its coloflal projection over the 
abyfs below ; here the waters lofe all reftraint, and no 
more oppolition is made to their impetuous courfe. The 
immenfe volume of their unfettered waves embraces the 
noble extent of the long and maftive terrace ; the earth 
trembles at a diftance under the prefture of their fall; 
fonvulfed with the fliock of waters, the air vibrates and 
groans ! Magnificent fall! horrible found ! Our fenfes 
are inadequate to its lublimity ; the ear fuffices not to 
hear it, the eye wants power to behold, the heart to feel, 
and the foul to admire.” Voyage Pittorejque, &c. Paris, 
3802. 
KIRK/BY I'RELETH, a townftiip of England, in 
Lancalhire, on the coaft, with 104.1 inhabitants: five 
miles weft of Ulverftone. 
KIRKBY LONS'DALE, a fmall market-town in 
Weftmoreland, twelve miles from Kendal, fixteen from 
JLancafter, and two hundred and fifty north-weft from 
London. It is called Kirkby from a bifhop of Carlifte of 
that name, who routed tire Scots, and was, it is faid, a na¬ 
tive of it. The town lies in a valley. There is a market 
every Thurfday, and three fairs annually, viz. May the 
9th and 30th for cattle, and December the 21ft for cloths. 
There is a market-crofs w hich ftands in three divifions; 
a curious bridge with three arches, founded on a rock : 
alfo an excellent river for falmon, trout, and other freAt¬ 
water fifh; and provilions of all forts are very cheap. The 
church is a noble ftructure, a hundred and twenty feet in 
length and a hundred and two broad, and ftands at the 
bottom of Fair Bank ; it has a fquare tower fixty-one feet 
high, built in 1705 ; fix bells, and chimes that play at 
three, fix, nine, and twelve,o’clock. In the library of the 
church is the following infcription; “This library, pul¬ 
pit, and new loft, together with the fchool-houfe, were 
founded by Mr. Henry Wilfon, of Underly ; who gave to 
the colleges one thoufand pounds, befides thirty-five 
pounds yearly to feven poor fcholars going to Queen’s Col¬ 
lege, in Oxford ; and to this church and fchool two hun¬ 
dred and forty pounds; to the poor of Kirkby-Lonfdale 
lordftiip five hundred pounds; befides many other gifts to 
pious ufes in other places; by all which, he, being dead, 
yet fpeaks.” John Briggs was vicar of Kirkby-Lonfdale 
Jixty-one years. From the church-yard and the banks of 
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the river, there is a very fine profpefl: of the mountains 
at a vaft diftance, as w'ell as of the courfe of the river. 
There are no manufactures carried on here. 
In the road to Lan caller, about two miles from Kirk¬ 
by-Lonfdale, ftands Borrow-bridge, in which is Borrow- 
hall, fituate in a very narrow deep valley, hemmed in on 
every fide by mountains covered with verdure; a fine 
ftream ferpentines through the vale, and here and there 
little cottages are difperfed, with fcanty inclofuresof mea¬ 
dow-ground ; over which hangs a narrow wood, from the 
riling of the hills ; fliut in on every fide, this is a place 
calculated for the moft folemn retirement; in winter, the 
rays of the fun for feveral weeks do not touch the vale, 
but only gild the mountains, along whofe fides the oppo- 
fite land fends an extenfive ihadow,'whofe gradations are 
daily marked by the peafant’s watchful eye, longinsf for 
returning vegetation.—Irby, near Lonfdale, has fairs Feb. 
24 and Sept. 20.— Britijh Directory, vol. iii. 
KIRKBY MOOR'SIDE, a market-town in the North 
Riding of Yorkfhire, two hundred and twenty-five miles 
from London ; fo called becaufe it lies on the fide of 
Black Moor. The market is on Wednefday. The church 
is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, but is not very ancient. 
The manor of Kirkby Moorfide, as appears from Doornf- 
day-book, was one of the heads of the barony of the an¬ 
cient family of Stutevilles, who continued to flourilh as 
barons in the north of England till the time of Henry 
III. one of them, William de Stuteville, founded an abbey 
of Ciftercian nuns at Keldholm, a fmall village near a mile 
from Kirkby Moorfide, which was endowed by him and 
feveral others of that family, and confirmed by king John. 
The fite of the building is ftill vifible, but»no part of the 
ruins are Handing. On the top of a hill, on the north- 
eaft fide of Kirkby, is the fite of an ancient building for¬ 
merly the feat of the above-mentioned family; and on the 
north fide of the town is ftill remaining a part of the ruins 
of another building called the Manor, faid to have belong¬ 
ed to the family of Neville, lord Latimer. In Doomfday- 
book this town is called Ckirchebi ; the orthography was af¬ 
terwards changed to Kirkby Morftieved, and now to Kirk¬ 
by Moorfide, or Kirby Moorfide. 
George Viliiers the diflolute duke of Buckingham, a 
part of whofe eftates lay here and at Helmfley, where he 
had a feat, died in a miferable condition in a private 
houfe (though forne fay it was then an inn) in this town. 
Pope calls it an inn, where he fays : 
In the worft inn’s worft room, with mat half-hung. 
The floors of plafter, and the walls of dung, 
On once a flock-bed, but repair’d with ftraw. 
With tape-ty’d curtains never meant to draw, 
The George and Garter dangling from that bed. 
Where tawdry yellow ftrove with dirty red. 
Great Viliiers lies. Alas ! how chang’d from him. 
That life of pleafure, and that foul of whim ! 
Gallant and gay, in Cliefden’s proud alcove. 
The bow’r of wanton Shrewfbury and Love. 
Or juft as gay, at council, in a ring 
Of mimic ltatefmen and their merry king. 
No wit to flatter left of all his ftore ! 
No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. 
There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends. 
And fame, this lord of ufelefs thoufands ends ! 
About a mile weft of this town, in a fmall valley, ftands 
Kirkdale church, a place of fome note to the curious on ac¬ 
count of its antiquity and very ancient Saxon infcription. 
Thefituation of the church is thus deferibed by the late Mr. 
Brooke, of the Heralds’ College, F. S. A. in a letter to 
Mr. Gough, read at the Society of Antiquaries, January 16, 
1777 :—“The fituation of Kirkdale church is extremely 
beautiful and romantic, though the building itfelf makes 
but a mean appearance, having little worth ohfervation, 
except the infcription , either externally or within. It is fi- 
tuated in a fruitful vale, furrounded with hanging woods, 
and watered with a brook; the whole fecluded from the 
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