earance as it stood, in a decayed state, by the side of the
high road leading from Penrith to Appleby. The whole neighbourhood
abounds in interesting traditions and vestiges of antiquity, viz.,
Julian's Bower; Brougham and Penrith Castles; Penrith Beacon, and the
curious remains in Penrith Churchyard; Arthur's Round Table, and, close
by, Maybrough; the excavation, called the Giant's Cave, on the banks of
the Emont; Long Meg and her daughters, near Eden, &c., &c.

378. _Fancy and Tradition_. [XXIII.]

Suggested by the recollection of Juliana's bower and other traditions
connected with this ancient forest.

379. _Countess' Pillar_. [XXIV.]

On the road-side between Penrith and Appleby there stands a pillar with
the following inscription:--

'This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Anne Countess Dowager
of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting with her pious
mother, Margaret Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d April,
1616; in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of L4, 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_!'

* * * * *

XVI. EVENING VOLUNTARIES.

380. _Lines composed on a high part of the coast of Cumberland, Easter
Sunday, April 7th, the Author's sixty-third birthday_. [II.]

The lines were composed on the road between Moresby and Whitehaven,
while I was on a visit to my son, then rector of Moresby. This
succession of Voluntaries, with the exception of the 8th and 9th,
originated in the concluding lines of the last paragraph of this poem.
With this coast I have been familiar from my earliest childhood, and
remember being struck for the first time by the town and port of
Whitehaven, and the white waves breaking against its quays and piers, as
the whole came into view from the top of the high ground down which the
road,--which has since been altered,--then descended abruptly. My
sister, when she first heard the voice of the sea from this point, and
beheld the scene spread before her, burst into tears. Our family then
lived at Cockermouth, and this fact was often mentioned among us as
indicating the sensibility for which she was so remarkable.

381. *_By the Sea-side_. [III.]

These lines were suggested during my residence under my son's roof at
Moresby on the coast near Whitehaven, at the time when I was composing
t