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security. To reach this place from Wetheral Priory there are three modes—crossing the ferry if on foot, fording the river if on horseback, or by going round two miles to the bridge of Warwick if in a carriage. Having relinquished my accustomed independent manner of journeying for a vehicle, we were obliged to follow the first dictate of rational philosophy, by reconciling ourselves to circumstances, as we could not bend circumstances to us, and driving over the fine bridge of Warwick, were repaid for our trouble by the grand view of the Eden and his wooded banks, whose charms are all commanded from Warwick-Hall, near the stream, the seat of Mr. Warwick.
A pleasing country accompanied us to Corby-Castle, a name conveying an idea rather of what it was formerly than what it is now, since little of the fortress can be discovered in the present irregular mansion, built at different times, and without attention to plan. The chief features of the celebrated views from this place are—the river Eden, which flows beneath; and its diversified banks, caught most happily from the balcony-room.
In the dining-room, we were shewn a fine picture by Titian, curious also for its subject. It presents two figures, half-length, Charles V. and his Empress, seated at a table, with an hour-glass before
