. Una guida illustrata e descrittiva alle grandi ferrovie d'Inghilterra e ai loro legami con il Continente. Implicatedin l'omicidio DI UN Becket, tenne il suo breve ma signorile mandato ; E dove, secoli dopo, la famosa Anna, contessa di Pembroke, che costruiva castelli e chiese, ospedali e mulini, che poteva parlare di I20 Settle e Carlisle Line. ^(? tutte le cose, dalla predestinazione alla seta, e che sposò due mariti con cui aveva croci e contraddizioni, la rimasero in dimora. Whenan discutibile candidato è stato costretto su uno dei suoi distretti, ha scritto, io sono stato

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. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . implicatedin the murder of A Becket, held his brief but lordly tenure ; and where, centuries afterwards, the famous Anne, Countess of Pembroke, who builtcastles and churches, hospitals and manor mills, who could discourse of I20 Settle and Carlisle Line. ^(? all things, from predestination to slea-silk, and who married two husbandswith whom she had crosses and contradiction, took up her abode. Whenan objectionable candidate was forced on one of her boroughs, she wrote, I have been bullied by a usurper, I have been neglected by a Court; butI will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man shall not stand ! The part of the line from whence we look down on the Castle is itselfremarkable. The material of which the embankment was composed wasthe boulder clay, so rotten, and laid on a bed so rotten, that the engineerinformed Mr. F. S. Williams that the tipping went on for twelve monthswithout the embankment advancing a yard. We now pass through what Phillips declares to be one of the most im-. pressive spectacles to the view of the geologist that the world affords—thegreat Pennine Fault; and the cutting along which the line is carried dis-closes the upheaved strata of shale, mountain limestone, grit, slate, iron, coal, and lead ore in extraordinary boldness and confusion. Soon we reach the market town of Kirkby Stephen, and shortly afterwardscross Smardale Viaduct, the highest on the Midland system. It rises 130feet from the water to the rails and the foundations themselves had to becarried 45 feet below the bed of the stream. Forty-two miles from Settle we reach Appleby. The Castle on the hill-top, covered in with fme trees, and the grand keep of Ca:sars Tower, ivyclad, look down pleasantly on liie county town, once with n, ooo inhabi-tants, but reduced by fire, sword, i)lunder, and plague to now only some1, 500 souls. In the time of Leland Appleby was but a po

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
• booksubjectrailroa
• bookyear1885