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Page 110:-
in appearance, join together just behind the Castle-rocks. These,
in the centre point of view, have the shew of magnificent ruins.
A river is seen on both sides of the vale, lengthening its course
in meanders, till it meets Threlkeld-water, or
Glenderamackin-beck, at New-bridge, where it takes the name of
Greeta. This picture is improved at the brow of the hill, on the
western side of the house. Here the Greeta is seen from the
bridge, running under the hill where you stand, and on the right,
coming forth in a fine deep-channelled stream, between steep
wooded banks. In a field on the left, near the second mile-post,
stands conspicuous, the above-mentioned wide circus of rude
stones; the awful monument of the barbarous superstition which
enslaved the minds of ancient times. Mr. Pennant had in his
possession an excellent drawing of these druidical remains.
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station, Crosthwaite Vicarage
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STATION VIII. Another station remains, and which ought to be an
evening one, in the vicarage garden. Mr. Gray took it in his
glass from the horsing-block, and speaks of it thus: 'From hence
I got to the parsonage a little before sun-set, and saw in my
glass a picture, that if I could transmit it to you, and fix it
in all the softness of its living colours, would fairly sell for
a thousand pounds. This is the sweetest scene I can yet discover,
in
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gazetteer links
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-- Castlerigg Stone Circle
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-- Glenderaterra Beck
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-- Greta, River
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-- station, Crosthwaite Vicarage
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-- station, Mr Wren's House
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