Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Guide to the Mountains, Lakes and North-West Coast of England: Descriptive of Natural Scenery; Historical, Archaeological, and Legendary
'All places that the eye of heaven visits,
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.'
The present volume completes the series of Coast Guides of England, which embrace three distinct works, the South, the East, and North*West Coasts. The Isle of Wight and Wales form separate works by other authors. The plan which I proposed to myself and have endeavoured to carry out, would, it was my hope, supply a more convenient arrangement, and be better adapted to the purposes of local research, than those Guides hitherto offered to the tourist. In addition to the Lake district, the rest of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and as much of North Lancashire as is included in the basin of the Lune, have been described; for Carlisle forms the chief approach from the North, as Lancaster does from the South, and the interesting country lying on the east of the lakes, and extending northward to the border, and westward along the coast-line, has been either imperfectly noticed, or altogether omitted. All the public lines of communication by railroad or by sea-steamers have been prefixed, and the expenses indicated; while, by consulting the table of routes, the visitor will be able to form his own judgment on the advantages of the several starting points from the coast or inland towns.
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