. The tourist's picturesque guide to Furness Abbey and Windemere district ... aked clay, containinghuman bones, and arranged in a straight line , and one yard apart, unquestionably belonging toa very early age, and doubtless cinerary urns of anaboriginal people. After remaining so long a quiet and almost insig-nificant place, Ireleth promises to occupy a situation ofsome consideration, from being called upon to take anactive part in the staple trade of the country. Blastfurnaces have been erected near its coast, at Askham,by the Furness Iron and Steel Co.; we may thereforesoon expe
. The tourist's picturesque guide to Furness Abbey and Windemere district ... aked clay, containinghuman bones, and arranged in a straight line , and one yard apart, unquestionably belonging toa very early age, and doubtless cinerary urns of anaboriginal people. After remaining so long a quiet and almost insig-nificant place, Ireleth promises to occupy a situation ofsome consideration, from being called upon to take anactive part in the staple trade of the country. Blastfurnaces have been erected near its coast, at Askham,by the Furness Iron and Steel Co.; we may thereforesoon expect to see this village share in those improve-ments which the remarkable unfolding of the mineraltreasures in the limestone formation has bestowed uponthe district generally. We now glide by, on the right, first Greenscarmines and afterwards Park mines, the rocks andearth around being tinged with the rich ferruginousdeposit, and we soon find ourselves entering the far-famed Valeof the Deadly Night-shade, and in sight of thetime-honoured and crumbling waUs of Furness FURNESS ABBEY. 27 FURNESS ABBEY. Down ! down they come—a fearful fall—Arch, and pillar, and roof-tree, and all,Stained pane, and sculptured they lie on the greensward strown—Mouldering walls remain alone ! Among the ruins of monastic establishments spreadthroughout the land, there are few more imposing intheir proportions, charming in their solitude, or affect-ing in their decay, than what remains to us of thatonce noble ecclesiastical edifice, the Abbey of St. Maryof Furness. We cannot look iipon the stateliness of the building,with its chaste and beautiful columns, symmetricalarches, quaint carvings, and elegant tracery, withoutfeeling intense admiration for the spirit which promptedthe hearts of our ancestors to devise, and their handsto execute, such great and gorgeous temples devotedto the worship of the Creator; and it is sad toreflect that here, upon the now damp and moss-grownfloor,
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