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Gentleman's Magazine 1788 p.804
'stone in Penrith church-yard.' This is the first time we ever heard there was an inscription on it; and we dare not set our anonymous traveller's opinion against the respectable names that have gone this way before him.
P.82, 83. The falls of the Clyde ...
With continued observations of bombast, errors, and hyperbole; the reviewer is not favourably impressed.

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