a market-town of the wapentake of Skyrack, in the west riding of Yorkshire, 204 miles from

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¹ Naked, unvarnished truth is a rare ingredient in epitaphs. The following, however, which is that alluded to in the text, presents, in this respect, a remarkable exception:

``` In expectatione judicii Hic jacet hominum paradoxotatus Nationale Gallus, religione jesuita, Orbis litterarum pertinentium Venerandae antiquitatis cultor et depredator Docte fabricans Somnia et inaudita commenta vigilans edidit. Scepticum pie egit Credulitate puer Audacia juvenis Deliris senex. Verbo dicam, hic jacet Hardulinus. ``` London. It is situated on the beautiful river Wharfe, and is chiefly remarkable for the magnificent castle, the ancient residence of the Lascelles family, on whose head the title of Earl of Harwood has been conferred. The population amounted in 1801 to 707; in 1811 to 771; in 1821 to 849; and in 1831 to 894.