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Nor reft that bard of lie, whofe tuneful breath 
Would furcly then have given thee life— 
O Death ! di RD. 
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To the Editar of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, : 
TAVING, in the courfe of a particu- 
-~ lar engagement, had occafion to vifit 
almo!t every diftriét in the kingdom, I 
_ Kept a Journal of my progrefs, and not- 
ed down every remarkable fact, relative 
to AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE, Im- 
PROVEMENTS, and MANNERS. Here- 
with 1 cranfinit. you the beginning of my 
Joursal, for infertion in your Magazine; 
end, fhould it appear to deferve the at- 
tention of your readers, it fhall be regu- 
larly continued hereafter. I am, fir, 
Corey, Your’s, &c. 
Nov. 25, 1796. a te 
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March 31, 179%, fet out from Cor- 
BY. in Cumberland, arrived at Fen- 
RITE; 18 miles—An open naked coun- 
try the whole diftance. The foil dry, 
-fandy, and in fome places a little 
loamy. Tue road, for about 15 miles, 
pafles over very extenfive commons, 
which ftrongly mark the fupinenefs of 
the owners; efpecially as a great pro- 
portion of thefe moors are capable of 
great improvement, at a very {mall 
expence. The farmers. bufy fowing 
oats, and preparing the ground for po- 
tatoes: they univerfaliy plow and har- 
row with two horfes abreaft, without a 
driver ; the latter office is generally per- 
formed by fervant girls. Approaching 
PenritH, the Skiddow, Saddleback, 
and Kefwick mountains appear at a dif- 
tance on the right; the later refemblihg 
a» chaos, of hills and rocks. On the 
fouth, the barren hills of Weftmoreland 
prefent themfelves ; their afpeét, how- 
ever, is foftened by the beautirul woods 
and plantations of Lowther and Brough- 
ham-Hall. On the left, a long range of 
mountains, whofe tops appear to reach 
the clouds, firetch Ike a wall as far as 
the eye can penetrate ; and on the north, 
the Scotch hilsappear ata great diftance, 
one behind another,till they are not diftin- 
gulihable from the opacity of the atmof- 
‘phere.. The fmall town of PENRITH 
fiands at the bottom cf the hill, tole- 
rably built with red freeftone (of which 
theresis great pknty in the neighbour- 
hood), and meftly covered with blue flate 
from Keswick. An old caftle im ruins 
adorns the weit fide, and a beacon, en- 
aus fiands on a high eminence to the 
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PENRITH is fituated upon one of the 
principal roads between LONDON and 
EDINBURGH ; it fupports no manufac- 
ture of note but the chief market is 
held there for a confiderable part of 
Cumberland and Weftmorcland. 
April 1, PENRITH to ORTON, in 
Wefimoreland. by way of SHap, rst 
miles.—I paffed Carliton-Hall, on the 
left, near Penrith. It isa neat. pleafant 
box, on the banks of the Eamont, the 
feat of THOMAS WALLICE, efq. Enter~ 
ed Wefimoreland at EAMONT BRIDGE, 
_a {mall village, where the famous Round — 
Table of king Arthur ftands, clofe by — 
the road on the right, fo often ceicribed _ 
by different writers. A little farther 
leaveBrougham-Hallona gentle eminence 
to the left; and. not far from thence, T 
entered lord LONSDALE’S extenfive de- 
meine, through which the road paffes 
for feven or eight miles. Lowther-Hall, 
a feat of his lordfhip, is fituated to the 
right, but not in view, being hid trom 
the eye of the traveller by large planta- 
tions. A great number of cottages itand 
near the road, built by lord LoNsDALE 
fome years 2go; but moft of them left 
unfinifned, and now tenanted by jack- 
daws and other birds. Some of thefe 
dwellings near Lowther Hall are ren- 
dered comfortable habitations, and occu-~ 
pied by his lordfhip’s labourers, who, it 
is faid, work for 1s. per day. Thofe 
ereCted near SHAP, report fays, were 
originally intended to be given to difte- 
rent people, with as much land annexed 
to them as would increafe the annual va- 
lue of each to 40s. in order to increafe 
the number of freeholders in the county. 
His lordihip feeds numbers of cattle, 
fheep, and horfes, in his paftures, till 
fome of them aétvaily die of old age. 
To a traveller, whois a ftranger in the 
country, and to his lordfhip’s turn of cha~ 
racter, this traét would feem in a ftate” 
of ruin, whclly deferted by its imhabt- 
tants, and left to herds of different ani- 
mals who were grown old in the pof- 
feffion. Would this noble proprietor, 
inftead of keeping men to build houfes 
probably never to be inhabited, and to 
tend cattle, fheep, and horfes, never to 
be ufefu', employ them in cultivating 
his grounds, his lordfhip, as well as the” 
publ'c, would be greatly benefited. E 
paffed over an excellent common before 
T arrived at SHaAp, but fo much over- 
ftocked as to render it of little ufe to the. 
proprietors. SHaP is a long firagglng 
village, in a bleak fituation. From SHAP 
to ORTON is fix miles, five of which oa 
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