Category: Humour
Conistone, anciently Conyngstone and Cunyngstone, is situated in that isolated portion of Lancashire which, divided from the mother county by Morecambe Bay, bears the general designation of Lonsdale North of the Sands, and in the extensive sub-division of Lonsdale North called...
As you will, most probably, be rather stiff, not to say saddle sick, with your last long and rough ramble, I may calculate upon your being disposed to make this a short and easy...
10. CHAPTER X.THE VILLAGE AND CHURCH AGAIN—THE DEER PARK—HIGH GROUND, LITTLE ARROW, AND HAWTHWAITE—TORVER—HEM HALL—TORVER MILL—SUNNY BANK—OXNESS—BROWN HOW—WATER-YEAT—ARKLID—NIBTHWAITE—WATERPA...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Miss Martineau tells you that—“The traveller should see the copper works at Conistone (if he can obtain leave,) both for their own sake, and for the opportunity it gives him of...
2. CHAPTER II.Some harmless individuals who desiderate the reputation of a taste for the romantic, and fancy that such reputation is to be attained by affecting to think differently from the...
12. CHAPTER XII.Quitting the slate quarries, you follow the road by which you formerly travelled on your way to the classic Duddon, till you reach the stream separating Lancashire from Westmorl...
3. CHAPTER III.WEATHERLAM—TILBERTHWAITE—THE BRATHAY—WORDSWORTH'S BRIDGES—HALLGARTH—LITTLE LANGDALE, ITS TARN, &C.—WHITEWASH, PRO AND CON—THE BUSK AND FELL-FOOT—“JOAN’S ALE WAS NEW”—ANCIENT TUM...
5. CHAPTER V.THE REV. ROBERT WALKER—HIS PARENTAGE, BIRTH, AND BREEDING—HABITS OF LIFE—HIS INDUSTRY, ECONOMY, AND HOSPITALITY—HIS WAYS OF MONEYMAKING—HIS DEATH—DESCRIPTION OF HIS OUTER MAN—CO...
6. CHAPTER VI.THE PRESENT INCUMBENT OF SEATHWAITE—HIS APPEARANCE, MANNER, CONVERSATION, AND PREACHING—A CONTRE-TEMPS—CAUSES OF DEFECTION—UNDERCRAG—“A VALE WITHIN A VALE”—“THE OLD CHURCH CLOCK...
1. CHAPTER I.Conistone, anciently Conyngstone and Cunyngstone, is situated in that isolated portion of Lancashire which, divided from the mother county by Morecambe Bay, bears the general de...
9. CHAPTER IX.ASCENT FROM THE MINES—THE KERNEL CRAG RAVENS—PADDY' END AND SIMON’ NICK—LEVERSWATER, &C.— THE SUMMIT—“OLD MAN,” UNDE DERIVATUR—ENUMERATION OF OBJECTS SEEN FROM THE SUMMIT—MOUNTA...
4. CHAPTER IV.ULPHA—COCKLEY BECK—THE SUNKEN GRAVES—DALE-HEAD—“THE STEPPING STONES”—HINGING HOUSE—THE CLAN TYSON—ANECDOTES—T’ BIRKS BRIG—REMARKS ON SCENERY, AND QUOTATIONS—SEATHWAITE BECK—MISS...
11. CHAPTER XI.This ramble being, in play-bill phrase, positively our last performance here this season, I am inclined to make it a pretty long one; therefore, you had better order out your po...