Gents Mag 1792 p.1116

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1792 p.1116 stout ale. Spirits are seldom used to excess; their baneful influence is almost unknown; they are taken as cordials, and I hope they will never make further encroachment." ... "The high roads are generally excellent, and the commons are well supplied with finger-posts. A road once made up will last a long while; the first expence is heavy, but they are not much burthened by after-repairs, or the traveller by turnpikes. .... I do not think his Majesty has more loyal subjects in his dominions; and if Mr. Pitt should cast a look upon this humble production, I have the satisfaction of telling him, the Proclamation was upon all the church-doors, and they loooked as clean as the day they were put up, except that we could sometimes trace the mark of a finger that had conned it over." The following sentiment arises from a visit to Barrow cascade: "We went round the pleasure-ground, and saw some valuable oaks, such as ought to cover our waste land, many hundred thousand acres of which still bear the name of Forests, without producing one tree. I think there is much satisfaction in looking at young plantations, as to future navies; and every lover of his country ought to regret when he sees a woodless forest." We shall end by transcribing some obervations on the summit of Skiddow: "When we reach the top, we open the crown of Ingleborough, and the range of hills to the champaign part of Northumberland; we have the Chiviot hills, and the great chain to the point of Mull in Galloway. The sun is setting over Hawthorn island, belonging to Lord Selkirk, partially tinging both coasts. And I cannot omit an opportunity of saying, it is a glorious emblem of an Union that has made Two people One; and, by making our interests the same, has stopped a tide of British blood, and turned our hatred into affection. By carrying the eye to the Mull of Galloway, we just see the North of Ireland, and distinctly the length of the Isle of Man." In the pleasure this "Ramble" has given us in the perusal, we have overlooked some slight inaccuracies, which the author, we doubt not, will attend to when revising for succeeding editions. Quantity, p.187, is used (for fulness) in a sense we never before observed it.
	gazetteer links
	-- Barrow House
	-- Buttermere
	-- "Skiddow" -- Skiddaw

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