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on high ground, stands the Castle; the ruins are very
scanty; the angle of what was once apparently been a high
tower, and the ground thrown together in irregular heaps,
now grown over with grass, are all that remain. A branch of
the Northumberland Fetherstonhaughs is seated at the College
in this town.
About three miles further, after traversing a pleasant road
between fine hedge-rows and noble trees, we arrive on a
black moor, where our eyes are greeted with the sight of
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LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS.
'A weight of awe not easy to be borne,
Fell suddenly upon my spirit, cast
From the dread bosom of the unknown past,
When first I saw that sisterhood forlorn:
And her, whose strength and stature seem to scorn
The power of years - pre-eminent, and placed
Apart to overlook the circle vast.'
The road passes through the midst of the circle, as also
does a wall, forming the boundary of the common, thus
injuring the effect of this mighty monument of British
superstition. The stones, sixty-six in number, are of
various sizes, some lying hid amidst the herbage, others
standing erect, and forming a circle three hundred and fifty
paces in circumference. On the south side, without the
circle, stands Long Meg, a large upright stone, about
fifteen feet round, and eighteen feet high, of unhewn
freestone, which seems to have been brought from Lazonby
Moor, all the rest being a kind of
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