1     Eamont-Bridge*              1
1-1/2 Clifton*                    2-1/2
2     Hackthorpe*                 4-1/2
5-3/4 Shap                       10-1/4
6-3/4 Hawse Foot*                17
4     Plough Inn*                21
2-1/2 Skelsmergh Stocks*         23-1/2
2-1/2 Kendal                     26

INNS—­Shap:  Greyhound, King’s Arms.

KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.

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TWO LETTERS

RE-PRINTED FROM THE MORNING POST.

REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS.

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KENDAL: 

PRINTED BY E. BRANTHWAITE AND SON.

[1844.]

NOTE.

See Preface in Vol.  I. for details on these Letters, &c.  G.

SONNET ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.

    Is then no nook of English ground secure
    From rash assault?  Schemes of retirement sown
    In youth, and mid the busy world kept pure
    As when their earliest flowers of hope were blown,
    Must perish;—­how can they this blight endure? 
    And must he too the ruthless change bemoan
    Who scorns a false utilitarian lure
    Mid his paternal fields at random thrown? 
    Baffle the threat, bright Scene, from Orrest-head
    Given to the pausing traveller’s rapturous glance: 
    Plead for thy peace, thou beautiful romance
    Of nature; and, if human hearts be dead,
    Speak, passing winds; ye torrents, with your strong
    And constant voice, protest against the wrong.

     WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.  Rydal Mount, October 12th, 1844.

The degree and kind of attachment which many of the yeomanry feel to their small inheritances can scarcely be over-rated.  Near the house of one of them stands a magnificent tree, which a neighbour of the owner advised him to fell for profit’s sake.  ‘Fell it,’ exclaimed the yeoman, ‘I had rather fall on my knees and worship it.’  It happens, I believe, that the intended railway would pass through this little property, and I hope that an apology for the answer will not be thought necessary by one who enters into the strength of the feeling.

W.W.

KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.

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No.  I.

     To the Editor of the ’Morning Post.’

SIR,

Some little time ago you did me the favour of inserting a sonnet expressive of the regret and indignation which, in common with others all over these Islands, I felt at the proposal of a railway to extend from Kendal to Low Wood, near the head of Windermere.  The project was so offensive to a large majority of the proprietors through whose lands the line, after it came in view of the Lake, was to pass, that, for this reason, and the avowed one of the heavy expense