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the horse, sometimes wading and sometimes swimming, brought them
back to land alive, but senseless with terror and distress, and
unable for many days to give any account of themselves. The
bodies of their parents were found the next ebb: that of the
father a very few paces distant from the spot where he had left
them.
In the afternoon, I wandered about the town, and by the quay,
till it grew dark.
Oct. 12. I set out for Settle by a fine turnpike-road,
twenty-nine miles, through a rich and beautiful country,
diversified with frequent villages and churches, very unequal
ground; and on the left the river Lune winding in a deep valley,
its hanging banks clothed with fine woods, through which you
catch long reaches of the water as the road winds about at a
considerable height above it. In the most picturesque part of the
way, I passed the part belonging to the Hon. Mr. Clifford, a
catholic. The grounds between him and the river, are indeed
charming [1]; the house is ordinary, the park nothing but a rocky
fell, scattered over with ancient hawthorns. Next I came to
Hornby, a little town on the river Wenning, over which a handsome
bridge is now built; the castle, in a lordly situation, attracted
me, so I walked up the hill to it; first presents itself a large
white ordinary sashed gentleman's house, and behind it rises the
ancient keep, built by Edward Stanley, Lord Monteagle. He died
about 1529, in King Henry VIII's time. It is now only a shell,
the rafters are laid within it as for flooring. I went up a
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[1]
This scene opens just three miles from Lancaster, on what is
called the Queen's road. To see the view in perfection, you must
go into a field on the left. Here Ingleborough, behind a variety
of lesser mountains, makes the back-ground of the prosect; on
each hand of the middle distance, rise two sloping hills; the
left clothed with thick woods - the right with variegated rock
and herbage; between them, in the richest of valleys, the Lune
serpentizes for many a mile, and comes forth ample and clear,
through a well wooded and richly pastured fore-ground. Every
feature which constitutes a perfect landscape of the extensive
sort, is here not only boldly marked, but also in its best
position.
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