. The earth and its inhabitants ... which joins the Eden near Carlisle. It has cotton factories andcollieries. Xear it are Naworth Castle and the ruins of Lanercost up in the rocky valley of the Irthing, and close to the Northumberlandborder, is Gilsland Spa, with its sulphuric and chalybeate sprino-s. We now turn westward towards the coast. IToIme Cult ram, at the mouth of the? Sea FeU, 3,230 feet ; Helvellyn, on tiie Weslmoreland border, 3,118 feet; Skiddaw, 3,058 feet. 287 Waver, is rerairkable for its old abbey church. AUonhii enjoys some favour as awatering-place
. The earth and its inhabitants ... which joins the Eden near Carlisle. It has cotton factories andcollieries. Xear it are Naworth Castle and the ruins of Lanercost up in the rocky valley of the Irthing, and close to the Northumberlandborder, is Gilsland Spa, with its sulphuric and chalybeate sprino-s. We now turn westward towards the coast. IToIme Cult ram, at the mouth of the? Sea FeU, 3,230 feet ; Helvellyn, on tiie Weslmoreland border, 3,118 feet; Skiddaw, 3,058 feet. 287 Waver, is rerairkable for its old abbey church. AUonhii enjoys some favour as awatering-place. Mary port is one of the coal-shipping towns of Cumberland, at themouth of the Eller, with a harbour enclosed between two piers. Cottons and leadpencils are manufactured, and ships built. The coal mines, upon which the townmainly depends for its prosperity, lie at Dearham, a couple of miles inland. WorH-ington, another coal-shipping port, is at the mouth of the Derwent. Whitehaven is Fig. 142. - Screes at Wastwater, Cl more important than either of the above, and besides shipping immense quantitiesof coal and iron ore, engages in the manufacture of iron, canvas, cottons, ropes,and other articles. The coal mines extend under the sea. Much of the coal shippedfrom Whitehaven is brought from the colliery town of ClcaJon Moor, whilst Egre-mont, a few miles to the south, supplies hematite iron ores. During the AmericanWar of Independence in 1778, Paul Jones, the famous privateer, had the audacityto land at Whitehaven, where he spiked the guns and set fire to two English ships 288 THE BRITISH ISLES. Avhich lie fouiul in the luirbour. Sf. Bccf<, au interesting old village to the southof Whitehaven, is widely known as the scat of a college for the training of Churchof Enffland clorffvmen. lidroiii/t/ss, on a shallow bay into which the Esk and theIrt (the latter the emissary of Wastwater) discharge themselves, engages in oyster-fisliing and the coasting trade. It is a quie
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