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Page 6:-
This Guide may also be of use to the artist who may purpose to
copy any of these views and landscapes, by directing his choice
of stations, and pointing out the principal objects. Yet it is
not presumed positively to decide on these particulars, but only
to suggest hints, that may be adopted or rejected at his
pleasure.
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station, Hornby Road
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The late Mr. Gray was a great judge of landscapes; yet whoever
makes choice of his station at the three mile stone from
Lancaster, on the Hornby road, will fail in taking one of the
finest afternoon rural views in England. The station he points
out is a quarter of a mile too low and somewhat too much to the
left. The more advantageous station, as I apprehend, is on the
south side of the great, or Queen's road, a little higher than
where Mr. Gray stood; for there the vale is in full display,
including a long reach of the river and the wheel of Lune,
forming a high crowned isthmus, fringed with tall trees, that in
time past was the solitary site of a hermit [1]. A few
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[1]
Hugh, to whom William de Lancastre, sixth baron of Kendal, gave a
certain place called Askeleros and Croc, to look to his fishing
in the river Loyn [or Lune.] - Burn's Westmorland, p.31.
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-- Lune, River
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-- station, Hornby Road
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