|
|
|
Hawes-water may be taken the first in the morning, and then cross
the mountains by the road to Pooley-bridge for Ulls-water, and
return in the evening to
PENRITH. [1]
So much is already said of this town, that little remains now to
be added here. The situation is pleasant, and open to the south.
It is tolerably well built, and rather a genteel than a trading
town. The town's people are polite and civil, and the inns
commodious and well served.
Saving the few resident families, the life of this town is its
being a thorough-fare. For, although seated in the midst of a
rich and fruitful country, few manufacturers have been induced to
fix here. Before the interest of the sister kingdoms became one,
Penrith was a place of uncertain tranquillity, and too precarious
for the repose of trade and manual industry; being better
circumstanced for a place of arms and military exercise. Yet
since this happy change of circumstances, no more than one branch
of tanning, and a small manufacture of checks have taken place.
This must be owing either to want of attention in people of
property, or of
|
