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[Pampo]calio of the same Chorographia. A station here would be an
efficacious check on any body of the enemy that might cross the
estuaries, above or below Boulness, and pass the watch there, and
the garrisons at old Carlisle, Ellenborough, Papcastle, and
Moresby; for it was impossible for any body of men to proceed to
the south, but by Borrowdale or Dunmail-raise, a garrison at
Keswick commanded both these passes. The watch at Caer-mot would
give the alarm to that on Castle-crag, in the pass of Borrowdale,
and the centinel on Castle-head, that overlooks Keswick, would
communicate the same to the garrison there; so that it is
apparently impossible that any body of men could pass that way
unnoticed or unmolested. But if they attempted a route on the
northern side of Skiddaw, and over Hutton-moor, to Patterdale,
the watch at Caer-mot was in sight, both of old Carlisle and
Keswick, and the garrison of the latter might either pursue, or
give notice to Whitbarrow and Ambleside, to meet them in the pass
at the head of Patterdale, called Kirkston, which is so steep,
narrow, and crowded with rocks, that a few veteran troops would
easily stop the career of a tumultuous crowd. If they made good
the pass, and turned to the east before the Romans arrived, they
would, in that case, be harrassed (sic) in the rear, till they
arrived at Kendal, where the watchmen from Watercrook would be
ready to receive them,
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