Cumberland


Crosby's complete pocket gazetteer of England and Wales (1815).

CUMBERLAND The most northern county on the WS of England bounded on the W by the Irish sea on the N by Scotland from which it is separated by Solway Firth the Scot's Dyke and the river Uddal on the E by the counties of Northumberland and Durham and on the S by Westmoreland and Lancashire. Its greatest extent is about 8O miles but its mean length not more than 60 its breadth is about 35 miles and its circumference 224 and it contains 97,000 square acres.

The surface of this county is extremely irregular and broken. The SW district exhibits a gigantic combination of lofty rugged and rock mountains thrown together in the rudest manner but inclosing many beautiful though narrow vallies as well as fine lakes and rivers and some extensive woodlands. On the eastern confines another range of hills stretches along to Scotland but much less picturesque than the former. The air though cold is much less piercing than might be expected from the general appearance of the county which owing to the extensive moors that so frequently present themselvos to the eye of the traveller has a bleak and naked aspect .The soil is in general fruitful the plains producing corn in great abundance and the mountains yielding pasture for innumerable flocks of sheep. The roads of this county however are not kept in the best repair.

Quotations
 Chapter 16 
The room was most dear to her, and she would not have changed its furniture for the handsomest in the house, though what had been originally plain had suffered all the ill–usage of children; and its greatest elegancies and ornaments were a faded footstool of Julia’s work, too ill done for the drawing–room, three transparencies, made in a rage for transparencies, for the three lower panes of one window, where Tintern Abbey held its station between a cave in Italy and a moonlight lake in Cumberland, a collection of family profiles, thought unworthy of being anywhere else, over the mantelpiece, and by their side, and pinned against the wall, a small sketch of a ship sent four years ago from the Mediterranean by William, with H.M.S. Antwerp at the bottom, in letters as tall as the mainmast.
 

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