of Goldmire, proceeds to Roanhead and over Duddon sands.

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that was entirely his own, and in which education or reading had no share.

"These sallies of natural genius, clothed in natural eloquence, were perfectly original, very highly edifying, and entertaining in the extreme. They were uttered in a hurried accent, an elevated tone, and very cominonly accompanied with tears, to which he was by nature prone.

He was a rapturous advocate for nature and a close copyist, abhorring from his heart every distortion or violation of her pure legitimate forms and proportions. An inflamed and meretricious stile of colouring he could never endure; and the contemplation of bad painting sensibly affected his spirits, and shook his nerves. Though he declined the society of his brother artists he was not fastidious, nor was he slow to admire where admiration was due; and where it was not, he was uniformly silent.

"To the distinguished merits of his great contemporary Sir Joshua Reynolds, he gave most unequivocal testimony. Sir Joshua's was a house of great resort, and he declined to visit him from the shyness of his nature; for he was never in the habit of visiting or being visited but by his intimates, who resorted to him not for the delicacies of his table, as nothing could be worse adminis tered: of these things he had no care.

"Conscious of his deficiency in point of education, and abstemious from habit, he was never seen at the tables of the great, Lord Thurlow's excepted, who, being truly great, knew his merit well, appreciated them worthily, and honoured him with his particular notice.

"Of his generosity many instances might be adduced. He had his failings (and who is without them), but the good qualities of his character were decidedly predominant.

"His historical and fancied pictures are extremely numerous; those that were finished and sent into the world bore only a small proportion to his sketches and unfinished designs, of which a great and valuable collection were left in the possession of his son the Rev. John Romney, of St. John's college, in Cambridge. Though he associated very little with gentlemen of his own profession,

"The small village of Rampside, at the southern extremity of Furness, is frequently a place of resort for genteel company, who repair thither to bathe or for the advantage of the sea air.

"This village is pleasantly situated close by the shore on the north side of the bay of Morecambe, five miles to the south of Furness Abbey. It contains two commodious inns, where all the common necessaries of life which are to be procured in the country, may be had at reasonable prices.

"At a little distance from the village there is a deep natural basin called the conck-hole, which in the absence of the tide, is always filled with a dense saline fluid, and is much extolled for its peculiar advantages.

"The infirm and delicate should inure themselves to the sea air, by walking an hour every

and declined exhibiting at the Royal Academy, he had a select set of acquaintance with men of talents, who respected his genius and delighted in his company. Amongst these was Mr. Hayley: and from his ingenious poem entitled The Triumph of Temper, Mr. Romney made four several compositions, in which Serena the he roine, is most engagingly pourtrayed.

"In the year 1799 this eminent painter, then in a declining state of health, returned to Kendal, and resigned himself to solitude under the tender care of an indulgent and attentive wife, where he languished till the 15th of November 1802, on which day he departed this life, being then nearly sixty-six years of age. On the 19th he was interred at Dalton, the place of his nativity, leaving one son, the Rev. John Romney, and one brother, James, a Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Honourable East India Company."

day, for eight or ten days, upon the beach, previous to their immersion in the cold bath; for the cool refreshing gales from off the western ocean, or those which are wafted across the extensive bay from the south and south-east when not too piercing, are often attended with the happiest effects. This procedure is always advisable, for if the air be too sharp it is to be feared that the cold bath will also be prejudicial.

"Rampside has a chapel of ease under Dalton. A little to the north of this chapel the ruins of the pile of Fouldrey, the light-house of Walney, and the surrounding scenery constitute an interesting assemblage for the pencil of the landscape painter.

"The pile of Fouldrey is said by Camden (Britannia, p. 978) to have been built by an Abbot of Furness, in the first year of King Edward III (A. D. 1327), it was probably intended for an occasional retreat from hostility; a depository for the valuable articles of the monastery of Furness; and for a fortress to protect the adjoining harbour; all which intentions its situations and structure were well calculated to answer at the time of its erection.

Pile of Fouldrey is about two miles south of Rampside.

"The inhabitants of these parts are by no means tenacious of ancient prejudices. Their manners are tinctured with a commendable degree of politeness. Integrity is a general virtue."

A temporary resident at Rampside in the year 1799 vaccinated the children of the lower orders at his own expense, and after the disease had gone through its progress, several of the children were exposed to the infectious effluvia arising from other children in the neighbourhood having the confluent small-pox-they all escaped infection.

"Prove all things hold fast that which is good."

An experiment so open removed every doubt and every prejudice, and satisfactorily established the use and value of the new discovery.

"The hamlet of Barrow, a small sea-port situated about three miles west of Furness Abbey, is another place to which invalids often repair to bathe in the summer season. It contains two commodious inns, and is the first sea-port town in Furness for the exportation of iron-ore, oats, malt, and barley."

Mr. West says, "at Adgarley the new ironworks are carried on under the old workings. The richest iron here is found in immense quantities: one hundred and forty tons have been raised at one shaft in twenty-four hours."

"On the side of a pleasant vale about three miles and a half to the south of Dalton stand the ruins of Gleaston castle, the ancient resi dence of the lords of Aldingham.

"The journey from Dalton by Dendrón and Gleaston is a pleasant ride of four miles.

"Dendron stands on the side of a valley two miles and a half from Dalton, and as its name reports, is shaded with trees. It formerly consisted of eight houses, but is now reduced to three.

"The road turns to the east at Dendron, and about a mile from thence passes through the hamlet of Gleaston," and to "the mouldering ruins of Gleaston castle, where shattered walls of massy thickness, and towers lighted by apertures of a small size, demonstrate the provision that was requisite for the security of our ancestors, and exhibit a pleasing contrast in favour of the settled tranquillity which we have long enjoyed in a more enlightened age."

The exterior facings of limestone, laid in lime mortar, contributed chiefly to the strength of the walls of this castle, notwithstanding they were eight or nine feet thick; the interior, instead of being filled with grout-work, asin the Pile of Fouldrey, only consisted of mud and small stones.

Mr. Close, when speaking of the Pile of Fouldrey, says, "many huge fragments of the wast ed walls are scattered upon the shore, under the cliff from whence they have fallen; and notwithstanding the concussion they have received in falling from a great height, and the frequent surges of the sea, they are as firm as ever, and in many places exhibit the shape of the edifice.