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Gentleman's Magazine 1792 p.1116
stout ale. Spirits are seldom used to excess; their baneful
influence is almost unknown; they are taken as cordials, and
I hope they will never make further encroachment." ...
"The high roads are generally excellent, and the commons are
well supplied with finger-posts. A road once made up will
last a long while; the first expence is heavy, but they are
not much burthened by after-repairs, or the traveller by
turnpikes. .... I do not think his Majesty has more loyal
subjects in his dominions; and if Mr. Pitt should cast a
look upon this humble production, I have the satisfaction of
telling him, the Proclamation was upon all the church-doors,
and they loooked as clean as the day they were put up,
except that we could sometimes trace the mark of a finger
that had conned it over."
The following sentiment arises from a visit to Barrow
cascade: "We went round the pleasure-ground, and saw some
valuable oaks, such as ought to cover our waste land, many
hundred thousand acres of which still bear the name of
Forests, without producing one tree. I think there is much
satisfaction in looking at young plantations, as to future
navies; and every lover of his country ought to regret when
he sees a woodless forest."
We shall end by transcribing some obervations on the summit
of Skiddow:
"When we reach the top, we open the crown of Ingleborough,
and the range of hills to the champaign part of
Northumberland; we have the Chiviot hills, and the great
chain to the point of Mull in Galloway. The sun is setting
over Hawthorn island, belonging to Lord Selkirk, partially
tinging both coasts. And I cannot omit an opportunity of
saying, it is a glorious emblem of an Union that has made
Two people One; and, by making our interests the same, has
stopped a tide of British blood, and turned our hatred into
affection. By carrying the eye to the Mull of Galloway, we
just see the North of Ireland, and distinctly the length of
the Isle of Man."
In the pleasure this "Ramble" has given us in the perusal,
we have overlooked some slight inaccuracies, which the
author, we doubt not, will attend to when revising for
succeeding editions.
Quantity, p.187, is used (for fulness) in a
sense we never before observed it.
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