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village and church crowning the left banks of the ground
that descends with its hedge-rows down to the river, which,
though invisible, skirts it the whole way. Below the ancient
church of Warwick is the newly-built bridge, and more to the
right is the busy manufacturing village. On the extreme
right, where the fells decline into the plain, the white
turrets of Edmond Castle and the tower of Hayton church are
discernible. and that mass of smoke marks the locality of
Brampton. In the front distance are scattered numerous
seat-houses, marking the line of the military road from
Carlisle to Newcastle; and beyond, the blue distance
terminates in the uplands of Nichol Forest and the wild
district of Bewcastle, backed by the heath-clad hills in the
neighbourhood of Langholm.
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The road leads through an extensive wood, and past the
village of Cumwhitton, from about five miles. The Eden flows
at a short distance through winding vistas, where water,
wood, and rock, holms, and sloping banks, combine to produce
scenes rarely equalled, never surpassed, but seldom seen by
strangers, and therefore comparatively unknown. After a
rather dull road, you are presented with it rolling down to
you from Armathwaite past the pleasant mansion of Low House.
The road as a foreground, the river skirting its rocky and
wooden banks on the left, its meadows and haughs on the
right, with the blue smoke curling upwards from Armathwaite,
sheltered by the Cooms and Baron Wood, and
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