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huge granites [1], pitched in the ground, and at some distance
from each other, leading to circles of small stones, and
increasing the space between the rows as they approach the
circles, where the avenue is about 27 paces wide. They are
supposed to have run quite through the village, and terminated in
a point. It has long embarrassed the antiquaries what to call
this very uncommon monument of ancient date. Mr. Pennant has
given a plausible explanation of it from Olaus Magnus, and
supposes the row of granites to be the recording stones of a
Danish victory obtained on the spot, and the stony circles to be
grateful tributes to the memory of consanguineous heroes slain in
the action.
There is at a small distance to the east from these stones a
spring, called Shap-spaw, in smell and taste like that of
Harrowgate, and much frequented by the people of the country for
scorbutic complaints, and eruptions of the skin. Leaving this
gloomy region of black moors and shapeless mountains behind you,
you approach a charming vale, which Mr. Young, in his elegant
manner, describes thus:
'After crossing this dreary tract, the first appearance of a good
country is most exquisitely fine; about three miles from Kendal,
you
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