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more pleasant sea-side ride in the kingdom. On the right, a bold
shore, deeply indented in some places, and opening into bays in
others; valleys that stretch far into the country, bounded on
each side by hanging grounds, cut into inclosures, interspersed
with groves and woods, adorned with sequestered cots, farms,
villages, churches, and castles; mountains behind mountains, and
others again just seen over them, close the fore scene. Claude
has not introduced Socrate on the Tyber in a more happy point of
view than Ingleborough appears in during the course of this ride.
At entering on the sands, to the left, Heysham-point rises
abruptly, and the village hangs on its side in a beautiful
manner. Over a vast extent of sands Peel-castle, the ancient
bulwark of the bay, rears its venerable head above the tide. In
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