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These are the only passes amongst the mountains, that a body of
Caledonians could attempt in their way to the south, and these
could not be secured without a station at Keswick, and that could
not be more advantageously placed, than where the town now
stands, on the meeting of the roads from the surrounding
stations, all being about an equal distance from it, and at such
a distance as rendered a station there necessary, and the several
castellums on Castle-crag, and Castle-hill, and Castlet, useful
in giving notice, in order to guard these important posts. That
no vestige is now visible of a station ever being there, nor any
notice taken of it by Camden and Horsley, nor even atraditional
(sic) record of its existence, are seeming difficulties, which
put the negative on what has been advanced. But this may only
prove, that no care was taken to preserve the memory of such
remains, and that the town occupies the whole area of the station
and that the station had been placed within the site of the town,
probably in the lower part, facing the
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