holly in the diocese of Carlisle, with the exception of the
wood of Allerdale-above-Derwent, in the diocese of Chester, and the parish of
Alston, in that of Durham. It contains 104 parishes. It is comprehended in
the province of York, and in the northern circuit. The assizes are held at
Carlisle twice a-year. The principal coach roads in Westmoreland are the old
mail road from Lancaster to Carlisle and Glasgow; and the road (formerly a
mail road) through Stamford, Newark, Doncaster, and Greta Bridge, to Carlisle
and Glasgow. There is a second road from Lancaster to Kendal, through
Milnthorp. Roads lead from Kendal south-westward to Ulverston and Dalton-in-
Furness; westward to Bowness, and across Windermere by the ferry to
Hawkshead, and Coniston Water in Furness, and to Egremont and Whitehaven in
Cumberland; north-westward by Ambleside to Keswick, Cockermouth, and
Workington, in Cumberland; north-eastward by Orton to Appleby, with a branch
road to Kirkby Stephen to Brough; eastward to Sedbergh, and onwards to
Yorkshire.

The railways in the district are, the Preston and Carlisle, the Kendal and
Windermere, the Cockermouth and Workington, the Furness (between Fleetwood,
Furness Abbey, Ulverston, Broughton, and the Lakes), the Maryport and
Carlisle, Whitehaven Junction, and Whitehaven and Furness Junction (between
Whitehaven, Ravenglass, Bootle, and Broughton).

Wordsworth, whose soul, as well as body, was identified with this district,
says of the mountains of Westmoreland, that "in magnitude and grandeur they
are individually inferior to the most celebrated of those in some other parts
of the island; but in the combinations which they make, towering above each
other, or lifting themselves in ridges like the waves of a tumultuous sea,
and in the beauty and variety of their surfaces and colours, they are
surpassed by none."

The lakes are numerous, beautiful, and extensive in size. Ulleswater is
embosomed in the centre of mountains, of which Helvellyn forms part. The
upper part of it belongs wholly to Westmoreland, while its lower part, on the
border of Cumberland and Westmoreland, is about seven miles long, with an
average breadth of half a mile. The higher portion of the lake is in
Patterdale. Haweswater is formed by the expansion of the Mardale-beck; and
all the larger affluents of the Eden, which join it on the left bank, rise on
the northern slope of the Cumbrian ridge. The river Leven, which flows out
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