Gents Mag 1761 p.500

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1761 p.500
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	Other Places in Cumberland Cockermouth, Oct. 19. Mr URBAN, IN the plan of a little tour sketched out by one of your correspondents in your Mag. for last April, I cannot but be surprized that, among the other towns of Cumberland, he should omit Keswick and its environs. Nature has with such a liberal hand lavish'd her graces on this sweet retirement, that here seems to be an assemblage of every thing that is beautiful, from every rural scene in the universe. Some of its finest groves have indeed been cut down within these few years; but in vain should I attempt to describe the beauties which remain, which cannot be experienced but by an actual survey. It would be unpardonable not to mention the Black lead mine at the head of the valley of Borrodale, as being one of the greatest curiosities in England, or perhaps in Europe *: Neither ought the salt spring to be past by, being very near the edge of the road, at the head of the lake. I have mentioned this part of the country chiefly on account of the prospects, with which every traveller, who has any taste for the wild and romantic, cannot but be highly delighted; the vallies of Ennerdale, Buttermeer, Loweswater, and Lorton, furnish us with some others of the same nature; but not quite so beautiful or extensive. But to the antiquarian I should point out several other as
	* See a particular description of them, illustrated with a map of the country, in February, 1751.
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