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Many pleasant and picturesque walks are in this
neighbourhood; and, within five miles, are Lowther Castle,
Brougham Hall, Eden Hall, Dalemain, Greystoke Castle, Hutton
Hall, and Ulles Water.
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A pleasant road leads to Eamont Bridge, so picturesque an
object that it ought to be transferred to the sketch-book of
every artist. Turning immediately to the right is Arthur's
Round Table, on the banks of the stream, an amphitheatre
twenty-nine yards in diameter, surrounded by a ditch and
mound. To the west of it, on the right of the road to
Pooley, is Mayburgh's Mystic Round, a hill, on the summit of
which is a circular enclosure, one hundred yards in
diameter, formed by pebble stones, having in its centre a
column of unhewn stone eleven feet high, and twenty-two feet
in circumference. Antiquarians have hazarded several but
unsatisfactory conjectures, as to the uses of these
mysterious structures. They are evidently of British origin,
and to be classed along with such as Long Meg and the
Keswick Circle. Following the Shap road till you arrive at
the Lowther, on a finely-wooded eminence, on which it is
perched like a nest, is Brougham Hall, the seat of Lord
Brougham and Vaux. It is a lofty and aged pile, having a
long front to the west, with an embattled parapet, and a
terrace extending north and south: the windows of the Hall
are filled with stained glass. The shrubberies and
pleasure-grounds are extensive, and laid out with taste. On
the high road, a little
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