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Page 83:-
By an act of parliament of the 25th Geo. II. it is made a
felony to break into any mine or wood, or wad-hole, or black
chalk, commonly called black lead, or to steal any from
thence. And in the recital, it is said to be discovered in
one mountain, or ridge of hills, only in this realm (meaning
Borrowdale,) and that it hath been found by experience to be
for divers useful purposes, and more particularly in the
casting of bomb-shells, round shot and cannon, &c.
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slate
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There are likewise several valuable mines of blue slate in
Borrowdale, which are of great service to the poor
inhabitants, as the wages for working in them are very good.
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Manesty
salt spring
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Leaving Grainge we pass Rigg-Side, an estate lately
purchased by Joseph Pocklington, Esq. We next come to
Manesty, an estate lately purchased by Rowland
Stephenson, Esq. Below this house is Borrowdale-well, a
medical water of excellent quality, and was formerly much
frequented; it is a never failing cure for cutaneous
eruptions in man or beast, by washing only. I attended it
several years, (but not of late) on account of rheumatic
pains in my left shoulder, about mid-summer, five or six
years successively: It so cured me that I have not had the
slightest touch of it these twelve years past.
The water is strongly saline, but the want of convenience
for lodgers makes it little frequented. It rises out of a
dead flat through a spar-rock adjoining to a peat-moss,
whereon grows the plant called Gale, which curious
plant is found on almost every moss in this country.
The water tastes very like sea-water, is very clear and
pellucid; but a kind of moss seems to arise with it, and
remain upon the top like a scum. I could wish that some of
our medical Gentlemen, who are not employed in inventing or
defending useless theories, would describe its qualities; I
cannot, as it is out of my line. I therefore speak only what
I have seen and experienced.
There is another spaw of the like kind on Newland's-Fell; it
lyes on the road-side, at Manesty-Nook, (see plate
VI.) at which place we leave Borrowdale freeholds, and enter
Newlands manor, which belongs to the Earl of Egremont.
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station, Hardendale Knott
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I had like to have forgot a station for the artist, which is
a rock at the water-head; I have not a name for it, but it
lyes towards the south of, and near Hardendale-Knott: there
is a very good view of the Lake; you see Vicar's Island over
St Herbert's, the fort on Vicar's Island just on the right,
and close to that, on the same side, Dr Brownrigg's white
house at the skirts of Skiddow. Keswick is distinctly seen
between St Herbert's and the beautiful wooded hills of
Cockshot and Castley, Barrow and Wallow-Cragg
on the right; the broken earth at Manesty-Nook, with
Branley-Park and Fall-Park on the left: Crosthwaite Church
makes its appearance distinct from the island and
peninsulas, and the back ground is Skiddow, with Saddle-back
just peeping on one side of it. The whole forms as grand a
view as any that can be seen. Could I here describe the
great advantage the landscape-painter would have on a clear
sunny day, when now and then. a cloud intervening, spots a
part of Skiddow or some other part of this extensive scene,
the reader would have a better idea of its beauties.
The back view from this station is also a very good one; the
village of Grainge for a fore ground, with several wooded
hills close to it, out of which several white rocks just
appear: Then comes Grainge-Cragg, a place high enough, with
the black mountain over it called Great-end to close
the left hand: the right is closed by an Alpine mountain
called Gate-Cragg; and on the back several mountains,
representing in form an artichoak, exhibiting different
shades, as the sun or clouds may chance to fall upon them,
are distinctly seen between Grainge-Cragg and Gate-Cragg.
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gazetteer links
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-- (black lead mine, Seathwaite)
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-- "Hardendale Knott" -- Hardindale Knott
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-- "Manesty" -- Manesty
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-- "Rigg Side" -- Rigg Side
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-- (salt spring, Borrowdale (2))
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-- "Borrowdale Well" -- (salt spring, Borrowdale)
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-- (station, Hardindale Knott)
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