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JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN
SCOTLAND IN 1819
Tuesday, A^igust 17. — Reached Edinburgh
in the Carhsle Mail at J past 5 a.m. On the
way I admired the unusual and imposing
appearance of the New Courts at Carlisle, one
on each side the entrance of the City from the
South. They tell me that the architect in-
tended to unite them by an arch supporting
a cupola, but that Lord Lonsdale, upon whom
the obloquy of the expenditure would have
fallen, objected to it as causing a heavy
addition of unnecessary cost. Tarn Wadling,
which I had hitherto only seen from the top
of Skiddaw and of Saddleback, was to me an
object of more interest. I had always half-
purposed to visit it in pilgrimage for Sir
Gawain's sake. It is a pleasanter spot than
I had been lead to expect, the ground about
it being agreably varied, and on one side
there is a fine dark hill. The Tarn itself
would just deserve to be called a fine piece of