ight miles, Keswick (by Whinlatter) twelve miles, by
Bassenthwaite Water thirteen and a half miles, Whitehaven fourteen miles,
Wigton sixteen miles, and Carlisle twenty-seven miles.

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WHITEHAVEN, a market-town and seaport, in Cumberland, near the cliffs called
Scilly Bank, in the parish of St. Bees, contains about 16,000 inhabitants.
The Lowther family have large estates around the town, with many valuable
coal-mines. Coarse linens are manufactured in the place; and a large
maritime and coal trade is carried on there. There is a spacious harbour,
giving excellent accommodation to vessels within it. "The bay and harbour
are defended by batteries, formerly consisting of upwards of a hundred
pieces, but lately suffered to fall into decay. These batteries received
extensive additions after the alarm caused by the descent of the notorious
Paul Jones in 1778. This desperado, who was a native of Galloway, and had
served his apprenticeship in Whitehaven, landed here with thirty armed men,
the crew of an American privateer which had been equipped at Nantes for this
expedition. The success of the enterprise was, however, frustrated by one of
the company, through whom the inhabitants were placed on the alert. The only
damage they succeeded in doing was the setting fire to three ships, one of
which was burnt. They were obliged to make a precipitate retreat, and,
having spiked the guns of the battery, they escaped unhurt to the coast of
Scotland, where they plundered the house of the Earl of Selkirk." Among the
principal residences in the neighbourhood of Whitehaven are, Whitehaven
Castle, the seat of the Earl of Lonsdale, and Moresby Hall, built after a
design by Inigo Jones.

Inns.--Black Lion and Golden Lion.

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ST. BEES, in which parish Whitehaven is situated, is four miles to the south
of Whitehaven. The church, dedicated to St. Bega, is an ancient structure,
and is still in tolerable preservation. Until 1810 the chancel was unroofed,
but in that year it was repaired, and is now occupied as a college, for the
reception of young men intended for the church, but not designed to finish
their studies at Oxford or Cambridge. The grammar-school adjacent was
founded by Archbishop Grindal. Ennerdale Lake is nine miles to the east of
Whitehaven, from which town it is easily reached.

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MARYPORT is a modern seaport on the river Ellen. The town is advancing in
prosperity, and the population