. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ARLISLE! said Master Lewis, as the cars stopped atbusy looking city, the terminus of many lines of railway. asked Frank < irray, glancing at the evidences of busi y about the station. Carlisle? I have I that the city was a thousand years old. V. old city may grow, said Master Lewis, on the way to the hotel. In 1800, Carlisle had but 4,00x3 inhabitants, now it has more than 30,000. rlisle was the ancient seat of the kings of Cambria, and vion in the early days of the < Christian era. It was destroyed00 by the D - . iged by
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. ARLISLE! said Master Lewis, as the cars stopped atbusy looking city, the terminus of many lines of railway. asked Frank < irray, glancing at the evidences of busi y about the station. Carlisle? I have I that the city was a thousand years old. V. old city may grow, said Master Lewis, on the way to the hotel. In 1800, Carlisle had but 4,00x3 inhabitants, now it has more than 30,000. rlisle was the ancient seat of the kings of Cambria, and vion in the early days of the < Christian era. It was destroyed00 by the D - . iged by the Picts and Scots, was doubt ited by Agricol - ems, and Hadrian, and it has a part in t A RAINY EVENING STORY AT CARLISLE. I05 listory of all the Border wars. Here half-forgotten kings lived; hereRoman generals made their airy camps, and near it the grotesque ships)f Roman emperors dropped their sails in the Solway. Here Chris-. ROMANS INVADING TAIN. ianity made an early advent, and the hideous rites of the Druid priestsisappeared. The ancient Druids worshipped in sacred groves; the oaks wereleir fanes and chapels, but they erected immense stone temples opend the sky, the moon, and stars: these were their cathedrals. In them ere great stones used as altars of sacrifice, and on their altars the darknd mysterious priests offered up human victims to their gods. The country around Carlisle abounds in Roman and Druidical-lies, and in antiquities associated with the Border contests. At Pen- th may be seen the ruins of a Druid temple, formed of sixty-sevennmense stones, called long Meg and her daughters. The Isle of Man, the ancient and poetic Mona, whose grand scenery as once the supposed abode of the gods of the Saxons, lies near the olway, and to it excursion steamers go from the western coast townsf England carrying pleasure seekers all the long summer days. Here Io6 VACATIONS IN HISTORIC LANDS. the I )ruids gat
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