William Hutton

“ AT the end of eight miles, we arrived here, situated upon an eminence, pleasant and healthful. It is said, "Ireland is free from venomous animals;" this is free from dirt. The town is neat, consists of two streets, or rather one, and the limb of another, forming a figure resembling the letter Y, and is about one hundred and fifty yards long. It is silent as night; except, as being a thoroughfare between Birmingham and the North, the inhabitants are entertained with the thunder of horses feet, and the rumbling of carriages. ”

“ At the head of Windermere, near Ambleside, is a fortification, which the people call a Roman Station. This is an error into which they have been led by the great Camden; who, because Amboglana, a real Roman Station, had some affinity of sound with Ambleside, concluded this was the place; and though it afterwards appeared to appertain to Burdoswald, yet the world could not quit the idea. It probably has been a Roman castle, and the place is extremely well adapted for one, as it commands a pass through the mountains. The buildings are totally gone ”

“ The market is thronged. I believe I saw at least five hundred carts, which brought supplies. The market-place is beautiful. The inhabitants are said to be proud, which I did not observe, except in one person, dressed like a clergyman, who refused a civil answer to the trifling inquiries of a stranger. I was pleased with Lord Derby's house, an elegant building, with the conveniencies of a large town, and the prospects of a charming country.
GARSTANG,
ELEVEN miles, has four streets, or rather one, for the other three do not deserve the name ”

“ Here I parted with my daughter, who bore to the left for the residue of the Lakes; and I to the right, for the Wall.
The first eight miles towards Carlisle, is one continued common, of excellent land. Pity the times do not call it into cultivation! The road is fine, and most beautiful.
CARLISLE,
EIGHTEEN miles, a city with which I was much pleased. There are thirteen streets, eleven hundred and ninety-six houses, and nine thousand five hundred and twenty-one inhabitants. The streets are rather more spacious than are generally found in antient cities. ”

“ To form an idea of the scene before me, the stranger may imagine to himself a valley between two mountains, which range parallel to each other, and extend more than twelve miles, and whose summits of barren rock are about four miles asunder. ”

“ SIX miles, a watering place, its rocky promontory projecting into the sea, inclosed with wood. It has an admirable effect upon the mind, when we burst upon it by turning the corner, in the road, half a mile distant. There are sixty-nine houses, and three hundred and eighty inhabitants. ”

“ I had the fortune to procure a good one for myself, whom I value highly; but have never traded in so precarious an article. But cannot you accommodate yourself at home?" He replied, "There is not one woman in Sutton that will suit me;"—whether the remark redounds to the honour of the fair sex, I leave to them. ”

“ Upon the crown of a rock, joining the church-yard, is a flat, thirty yards diameter, which precipitates into the sea, where stand the remains of a chapel. In this repository of the dead was taken up a stone coffin, which now lies above ground, and seems to fit a corpse five feet ten, and to have stood the test of a thousand years. A hollow is cut in the hard grit, for the head, neck, shoulders, &c. ”

“ A person of my appearance, and stile of travelling, is so seldom seen upon the high road, that the crowds I met in my whole journey viewed me with an eye of wonder and inquiry, as if ready to cry out "In the name of the Father, &c. ”

“ As there is no road, he is liable to be lost. He may be caught in a fog, or in the night. If on foot, he may wade half the way, and be retarded; if on horse-back, his horse may fail him, or he fall sick ”