stle. It has been termed, from
its elevated position and the prospects it commands, "The Windsor of the
north." The mansion and grounds are exceedingly beautiful, and will repay
the tourist for his visit thereto. LOWTHER CASTLE, the residence of the Earl
of Lonsdale, is in the same district, and is one of the most princely halls
in the kingdom, erected in a park of 600 acres. Hackthorpe Hall, a farm-
house, is contiguous, and was the birth-place of John, first Viscount
Lonsdale. Shap (anciently Heppe), a long straggling village in the vicinity,
and near which is a station on the Preston and Carlisle Railway, has derived
some note from the elevated moors close by, known by the name of Shap Fells.
Shap Spa, in the midst of the moors, attracts crowds of visitors during the
summer season. The spring is said to yield medicinal waters similar to those
of Leamington.

Inns.--Greyhound, and King's Arms.

In closing this rapid sketch of the Lake District we may add, that the
leading mountains in Cumberland and Westmoreland are thirty-five in number;
the passes, five; the lakes, eighteen; and the waterfalls, twelve.
"WANDERINGS AMONG THE LAKES," a companion volume to this, now in preparation,
will form a useful illustrated guide to their most remarkable features.

HOME.

Following that plan of contrasts which travellers generally find most
agreeable, we should advise that tourists, taking their route southward, will
avail themselves of the North Staffordshire lines to visit two of the most
beautiful mansions, if they were foreign we should say palaces, in
England--Alton Towers, the seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Trentham Hall,
the seat of the Duke of Sutherland, and conclude by investigating the
Porcelain Manufactories, which, founded by Wedgwood, are carried on with
excellent spirit and taste by a number of potters, among whom Alderman
Copeland and Mr. Herbert Minton are pre-eminent.

Alton Towers stand near Cheadle, on the Churnet Valley Line; Trentham Hall
not far from Stoke.

A day may be pleasantly spent in examining the elaborate gardens of Alton,
which are a magnificent specimen of the artificial style of landscape
gardening. Mr. Loudon gives a very elaborate description of them in his
large work on the subject of gardens to great houses.

At Cheadle the Earl of Shrewsbury has erected at his own expense, Mr. Pugin
being his architect, a small Roman Catholic Church, which is a magnificent
specimen