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consisting of a mayor, recorder, alderman, and capital
burgesses. By the recent Municipal act, it is divided into
three wards, under the superintendence of a mayor, six
aldermen, and eighteen councilmen. By the Reform bill, the
town returns one member to Parliament. It was formerly noted
for coarse woollen goods, called Kendal cottons, but goods
of finer description are now more commonly manufactured. The
river Kent affords plenty of water for its numerous mills
and dye-houses. There are also very extensive marble works.
As the country people for many miles around attend the
markets and fairs, the town thus combines the character of a
manufacturing place, with that of the centre of a rich
agricultural district.
Kendal can also boast of being furnished with schools and
charitable institutions, as numerously and liberally endowed
as any town of equal population. Indeed, in this respect,
the county of Westmorland exceeds all others, owing chiefly
to the number of clever and eminent men who have
distinguished themselves, and have sought to return back to
their native county some portion of those benefits which
they themselves derived from it.
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The road leaves Kendal by a steep ascent, having the
workhouse and prison on either hand. The views northward, in
the direction of Shap and Orton, are pretty, not unlike the
vale of Derbyshire: southward, there is an opening through
the marble jaws of Underbarrow, showing the varied
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