a town of Westmoreland, 253 miles from London. It is a large place, with a woollen manufactory, and a market on Tuesday. It has a free school well endowed, with three presentations to Christ's college Cambridge. It has a large church, and a good stone-bridge of three arches over the river. From its churchyard and the banks of the river, there is a very fine prospect of the mountains at a vast distance, as well as of the course of the river, which abounds with salmon, trout, &c. and provisions of all sorts are very cheap here.

Kirby-Steven, or Stephen's-Church, a town of Westmoreland, 257 miles from London, stands on the river Eden near Sedbergh and Asgarth. The church is a large building with a lofty tower; in it are several old monuments. Here is a good free school that has two exhibitions. The town is noted for the manufacture of yarn-stockings; and it has a market and a fair.