In the garden here, are some altars; and a carving of a female head, in a lion’s skin; I suppose, _Omphale_; and an admirable carving of a Genius sacrificing. We saw a gold _Nero_ found here: a cornelian with a woman’s head, flowing hair. This valley by the river side is very good land, with some shadow of Nature’s beautiful face left; but every where else about us, is the most melancholy dreary view I ever beheld, and as the back-door of creation; here and there a castellate house by the river, whither at night the cattle are all driven for security from the borderers: as for the houses of the cottagers, they are mean beyond imagination; made of mud, and thatched with turf, without windows, only one story; the people almost naked. We returned through Longton, a market-town, whose streets are wholly composed of such kind of structure: the piles of turf for firing are generally as large and as handsome as the houses. _Quanta Calydonios attollet gloria campos Cum tibi longævus referet trucis incola terræ Hic suetus dare jura parens: hoc cespite turmas Affari: nitidas speculas, castellaque longe Aspicis? Ille dedit, cinxitque hæc mœnia fossa Belligeris hic dona deis, hæc tela dicavit Cernis adhuc titulos: hunc ipse vacantibus armis Induit: hunc regi rapuit thoraca Britanno._ +Statius+ V. Sylvar. After this excursion northward, we set out from Carlisle eastward, withinside of the Roman _vallum_. Warwick, thought a Roman station, upon the river Eden, pleasantly seated in a little woody valley. We left the Roman road going strait from the citadel of Carlisle to _Petrianis_. To the right a little is Corby castle, where are many monuments of antiquity preserved; as likewise at Caercaroc near it. Upon the river Gelt, a little before we came to Bramton, we went up the river to see a Roman inscription, cut upon the natural rock; a most odd and melancholy place: the river runs through a canal of rock all the way. Upon the great ridge of fells coming hither from Cross fell by Penrith, are many circles of stones, and circular banks of earth, the temples of the Druids of the patriarchal mode. There are likewise square works set round with stones, which were their places of judicature.