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moss-troopers. His books, at least some of them, remain to
show what his studies were in those intervals, which his
important and busy and watchful situation as Lord Warden of
the Marches allowed for such peaceful, soul-soothing
pursuits. The ceiling is of massy oak, in plain intersecting
pannels. The dungeons below are arched and without light;
the rings still remain to which men, whose fierce untamed
nature could not otherwise be subdued, or taught that there
was neither honour nor glory in such wild raids and
burnings, were chained and treated as the wild beasts of the
forests. And the tourist will happily think how blessed he
is, that his line has been thrown upon quiet waters and in
such peaceful times, and under a constitution that both
wills and enables every man to sit under his own vine, and
eat with thankfulness the labour of his own hands. There are
other apartments which are kept for the Earl of Carlisle and
his family, whenever they visit this part of their
possessions. The Castle is situated on the tongue of a
precipice, surrounded on all sides by deep glens, except the
front, from which the park extends up a gradually-rising
ground, so that to the spectator approaching from Brampton
it appears very low.
Hence the tourist may pass to Gilsland Spa, which is further
up the vale, between high banks and precipices, where the
river Irthing, emerging from the desolate heath-clad moors
in which it springs, turns westwards into the pleasant
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