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hand by the handle*, it appears to have been a Gaul, the only I
■fculpture of the kind found in our iiland.
Continue my ride along the coaft, enjoying a moil: beautiful 1
profpedt of the Solway Firth, the Buna eeftuarium of Ptolemy, I
bounded by the mountains o f Galloway, from the hill o f Crefel, I
near Dumfries, to the great and the little Rofs, not remote from I
Kirkcudbright.
Keep on the fhore as far as the village o f Allanby : then turn ■
to the N. Fail, ride over a low barren woodlefs trad, and difmal I
moors, feeing on the left -Crefel in Scotland, and on the right ■
Skiddaw, both quite clear; the laft now appears o f an infulting ■
height over its neighbors. Had the weather been mifty it would ■
have had its cap; and probably Crefel, according to the old pro-1
verb, would have fympathized ‘
If ever Stidjami wears a cap,
Crefel wots fall well of that.
Dine at Wigton, a fmall town, with feme manufactures o f coarfe B
checks. About a mile or two to the right, is old Carlile, fuppofed ■
by Mr. Horfely to have been the oleitacum o f the notitia.
From Wigton the country continues very flat and barren, to a 11
fmall diftance o f Carlile. Near that city a better cultivation ■
takes place, and the fields often appear covered with linnen ma- S
nufaftures : crofs the river Cauda, that runs through the fuburbs, ■
and enter the city at the Irijh gate.
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i J p S is' moft pleafantly fituated ; like Chejler is furrounded:
with walls, but in very bad repair, and kept very duty. The caftle
I S but makes a good appearance at a diftance : The view
C m it confifts o f an extenfive traft of rich meadows, of the nver
.p jm , here forming .two branches and infulating t egroun -_°ver
one is a bridge of four -, over the-other one of nine arches. There.
Sis befides a profpeft of a rich country ; and a diftant view of Coldm
ils Crofs-fells, Skiddaw; and other mountains. 1
■ p he ca^ie was founded by William Rufus, who reftored t e.
I c i tv after it had'lain two hundred years in ruins by the Danes.
E | Bp made feme additions to it ; and Henry Vil i- built the,
Scitadel- an oblong with t h r e e r o u n d baftions-feated on the "Weft*
fide of the town : in the inner gate of the caftle is ftill.remaining
the old Portcullis; and. here, are ibewn the apartments of Mary
Queen of. Scots, where ihe was lodged for feme time after her
landing at Workington; and after being for a "little fpace en-
ftertained with flattering refpeft,. found herfelf prifoner toher jealous
| r Carlile has two other gates befides the Irijh, viz. the Englijh- and.
the: Siotcte The principal-ftreet is very fpatious ; in it is a. guard-
houfe, built by Crnnwel, commanding, three other.ftreets that-opeit
finto this.- .
The cathedral, .begun by Walter, deputy-under William Rufus, is
«very incomplete, Cromwel having pulled down part in 1649 to build
barracks : there remains feme portion that was built in the Saxon
¡¡mode, with round arches, and ,vaft mafly. round pillars, whofe iliafts
f a r e only, fourteen feet, two inches high, and circumference full feven-
teen and a. half : the reft is more modern, faid to have been built
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