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"This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April, 1616: in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of 41. to be distributed to the poor of the parish of Brougham, every 2d day of April for ever, upon the stone-table placed hard by. Laus Deo!"

The Eden is the principal river of Cumberland,

and has its source in the wildest part of Westmore

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Thus, with the manly glow of honest pride,

O'er his dead son old ORMOND nobly sigh'd, &c.

Ormond bore the loss with patience and dignity: though he ever retained a pleasing, however melancholy, sense of the signal merit of Ossory. "I would not exchange my dead son,” said he, "for any living son in Christendom."

HUME, vi. 340.

The same sentiment is inscribed on Miss Dol

man's urn at the Leasowes.

Heu, quanto minus est cum reliquis versari,

quam tui meminisse!

NOTE b. P. 53, l. 13.

High on exulting wing the heath-cock rose.

This bird, according to Mr. Pennant, is remarkable for his exultation during the spring; when he calls the hen to his haunts with a loud and shrill

voice, and is so inattentive to his safety as to be

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When lo! a sudden blast the vessel blew.

In a lake, surrounded with mountains, the agita

tions are often violent and momentary. The winds

blow in gusts and eddies; and the water no sooner

swells, than it subsides.

See BOURN's Hist. of Westmoreland.

NOTE f. P. 63, 1. 3.

To what pure beings, in a nobler sphere,

She yields delight but faintly imag'd here.

The several degrees of angels may probably have larger views, and some of them be endowed with capacities able to retain together, and constantly set before them, as in one picture, all their past knowledge at once.

LOCKE on Human Understanding, book ii.

chap. x. 9.

AN EPISTLE

то

A FRIEND.

Villula, .

et pauper agelle,

Me tibi, et hos unà mecum, quos semper amavi,

Commendo.

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