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front appears a fine sweep of country sloping to the south. To
the right, Warton-cragg presents itself in a bold style. On its
arched summit are the vestiges of a square encampment, and the
ruins of a beacon. Grounds bearing from the eye, for many a mile,
variegated in every pleasing form by woods and rocks, are
terminated by cloud-topt Ingleborough. A little further, on the
same hand, another vale opens to the sands and shows a broken
ridge of rocks, and beyond them, groups of mountains towering to
the sky, Castle-steads, a pyramidal hill, that rises above the
station at Kendal, is now in sight. At the bottom of the bay
stands Arnside-tower, once a mansion of the Stanleys. The Cartmel
coast, now as you advance, becomes more pleasing. Betwixt that
and Silverdale-nab (a mountain of naked grey rock) is a great
break in the coast, and through the opening the river Kent rolls
its waters to join the tide. In the mouth of the aestuary are two
beautiful conical isles, clothed with wood and sweet verdure. As
you advance toward them they seem to change their position, and
hence often vary their appearance. At the same time a grand view
opens of the Westmorland mountains, tumbled about in a most
surprising manner. At the head of the aestuary, under a beautiful
green hill, Heversham village and church appear in fine perspect-
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