Account of the Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham ...

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W. Davison, 1833 - 183 pages
 

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Page 158 - ... Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless there the lowly sleep, As the bird beneath their eaves. The free, fair Homes of England ! Long, long, in hut and hall, May hearts of native proof be reared To guard each hallowed wall! And green for ever be the groves, And bright the flowery sod, Where first the child's glad spirit loves Its country and its God !* THE SICILIAN CAPTIVE.
Page 171 - Hutchinson, describing the castle as it was in his day, and prior to the late alteration, says, " Within the works is a spacious area, which you enter from the north by a gate with a portcullis, and defended by two square towers. The area is of no regular figure, and the works which surround it, though very strong, have no distinguishing marks, by which a conjecture can be formed as to their age.
Page 170 - Neville's cross in one square,, and the bull's head in the next, so in the same reciprocal order about the boss. On the top of the boss, was a stalk of stone (being a cross a little higher than the rest), whereon was cut, on both sides of the stalk, the picture of our Saviour Christ, crucified ; the picture of the blessed Virgin on one side, and St. John the evangelist on the other, both standing on the top of the boss : all which pictures were most artificially wrought together, and finely carved...
Page 171 - The pleasure of the castelle is in the 2 court, and entering into it by a great toure, I saw in schochin, in the fronte of it a lion rampaunt. On the southe west part of the castelle cummith doune a little bek out o' the rokkes and hilles not far of.
Page 170 - ... which socket was fastened to a large square stone ; the sole, or bottom stone, being of a great thickness, viz. a yard and a half every way, this stone was the eighth step. The stalk of the cross was in length three yards and a half, up to the boss, having eight sides, all of one piece ; from the socket it was fixed into the above boss, into which boss the stalk was deeply soldered with lead.
Page 61 - Crossfell and the regions a little lower are sometimes clear, when the vale is covered with a fog ; I have been upon the mountain when that has happened, and the spectacle is curious, as the clouds appear firm, though uneven, like a boisterous, disturbed ocean, all distant sounds are at that time heard distinctly, and strike the ear in a very singular manner, as they seem to issue under your feet. As to the helm, the cloud does not always rest upon the top of the hills, but is sometimes several degrees...
Page 62 - The cold air rushes down the hill with amazing strength, so as to make it very difficult for a person to walk against it. I have frequently been under the necessity of turning my back to take breath at every ten yards at least ; it mostly comes in gusts, though it sometimes blows with unabated fury for twenty-four hours ; and continues blowing at intervals for three, four, five, and even six weeks. I have at different times walked into the cloud, and found the wind increase in violence, till I reached...
Page 4 - ... and of human habitations. Below it the hill sides, in spring and autumn, present a beautiful green surface, and in summer an abundant and flowery produce in the meadows; while on the same hill, above the limestone, bare short grass, ling, and moss, impart the brown dreary aspect which characterizes all the higher portion of the mining district, rendered in moist weather or in winter still more dreary by hanging mists on the summits, or wasting snows scattered over the wide expansive sides of...
Page 59 - Bar is parallel to that part of the main cloud or collection of vapour that is tinged with white by being struck with the sun's rays ; the Bar appears in continual agitation as boiling or struggling with contrary blasts ; while the Helm all this time keeps a motionless station. When the Bar is dispersed, the winds that issue from the Helm are sometimes extremely violent ; but that force seems to be in proportion to the real current of the winds which blow at a distance from the mountains, and which...

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