The imports of Sunderland are numerous, as are also the exports; but of the latter, the principal article is coal, the trade in which furnishes employment for a vast number of keels and vessels. Lime and glass form important articles of commerce in this port, and ship-building is carried on to a very great extent.

That terrible visitation, the cholera morbus, after having traversed Asia, and great part of Europe, at length reached Hamburgh; it then passed across the German ocean to Sunderland, whence it spread itself through great part of the United Kingdom.

DERWENTWATER, FROM APPLETHWAITE,-CUMBERLAND.

In this View, the spectator, standing with his back towards Skiddaw, enjoys a fine prospect, including the beautiful and romantic hamlet of Applethwaite, the northern extremity of Derwentwater, and the lofty range of mountains forming the south-western boundary of the lake.

The lovely and sequestered dwelling-place, in the foreground of our View, by "circling mountains sever'd from the world," appears to be a spot peculiarly suited to the rich and glowing visions of young romance.

"There the rapt poet's step may rove,

And yield the Muse the day;
There Beauty, led by timid Love,

May shun the tell-tale ray."

The distant lake reposes in calm and silent majesty:

"Time writes no wrinkles on its azure brow!"

The hills, patriarchs of the solitude! decked with their coronets of mist, and "gleaming with purple”—

"like giants stand

To sentinel enchanted land.”

KESWICK, FROM GRETA BRIDGE,-CUMBERLAND.

Keswick, a small market-town of neat appearance, consisting of one long street, is delightfully situated near the foot of Derwentwater, at the distance of eighteen miles from Penrith. Tourists to the Lakes are here provided with every accommodation, both as respects domestic comfort, and the requisites for their pleasurable excursions. An annual regatta is held on the last Thursday and Friday in August, when the several sports of horse-racing, rowing, and wrestling are maintained with great spirit.

The Town-hall was erected in 1813: on the ground-floor the meal, butter, egg, and poultry market is held; and the upper part of the building forms a commodious courtroom, in which the Governors of Greenwich Hospital sit as lords of the manor of Castlerigg and Derwentwater. The principal manufactures in Keswick consist of coarse woollen goods, and black-lead pencils; and in these a considerable portion of the inhabitants

find employment. The population at this time can scarcely be estimated at less than from two to three thousand.

There are in Keswick two museums, exhibiting, in addition to many foreign curiosities, the natural history and mineral productions of the surrounding country. At each of these, the visitor can purchase interesting specimens, illustrating the geology of the neighbourhood.

With the accompanying view before him, the reader need not be told that the situation of the town is beautiful and romantic. From the spirited delineation here given, the eye is enabled to convey to the mind a vivid impression of "this scene sublime :”—

"Where, as to shame the temples deck'd

By skill of earthly architect,

Nature herself, it seemed, would raise

A minster to her Maker's praise."

On the mountains forming the back-ground of the view, the history of centuries is charactered; and whilst viewing them, the question suggests itself,

"Yon beetling brow,

In craggy nakedness sublime,

What heart or foot shall dare to climb ?"

The following extract from "The Lady of the Lake," beautifully describes the natural phenomena so frequently observable in a mountainous neighbourhood:--

"The evening mists, with ceaseless change,
Now clothe the mountain's lofty range,

Now leave their foreheads bare,

And round the skirts their mantle furl,

Or on the sable waters curl,

Or on the eddying breezes whirl,

Dispers'd in middle air.

And oft, condensed, at once they lower,

When, brief and fierce, the mountain shower

Pours like a torrent down;

And when return the sun's glad beams,

Whiten'd with foam, a thousand streams
Leap from the mountain's crown."

Keswick offers a delightful and halcyon retreat, suitable to many occasions in life. The young bride who has unreluctantly parted with "her maiden gladness, for a name and for a ring”—the happy family circle, desirous of collecting a store of amusing incidents and useful information, to enliven the winter evenings at home-the citizen who can assure himself, that labyrinths of brick and mortar are not the most picturesque features in nature, and that an echo heard in the mountains, discourses music not less eloquent than "cent per cent" whispered on 'Change-for each and all of these, Keswick and its neighbourhood affords the varying prospect," ever charming-ever new," fanned by breezes pregnant with health, and redolent of balmy odours, more grateful and refreshing than the rich fragrance "of Araby-of Araby the blest."

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BOTHAL CASTLE,-NORTHUMBERLAND.

The ancient village of Bothal is seated in a romantic and picturesque amphitheatre, on the north bank of the river Wansbeck, three miles from Morpeth. The church contains black-letter tablets inscribed with the genealogy of the Ogles, and also an alabaster monument, bearing recumbent figures of a lord of this family and his lady.

Bothal Castle stands between the river and the village, on the brink of a rock whose foot is washed by the Wansbeck. Of this edifice, a large tower gateway, and several fragments of the outer walls, are still remaining. The former of these, with its strong lofty towers, appears to be the most modern part of the castle, and bears several shields of arms, besides the figure of a man in the attitude of sounding a horn, and another effigy representing a man holding a ball in his hands. This part of the structure is referred to the time of Edward IV., and several of its apartments are still in a state of good preservation.

The lordship of Bothal having been made a barony by Richard Cœur de Lion, was held in capite by Robert Bertram, on the service of three knight's fees. In the reign of Edward III., a descendant of the same family obtained the royal permission to make a castle of his manor-house at Bothal. His daughter and heiress conveyed the barony in marriage to Sir Robert Ogle, Knt., whose family had long enjoyed considerable influence, and held large possessions in Northumberland. It subsequently came into the possession of the Duke of Portland; by whom a court-leet and baron is held annually in April and May. It has frequently been remarked, that the ancient baronial structures have, written upon their walls, a brief history of the most remarkable characters and events that are to be found in the annals of their country. Bothal Castle is not wanting in proud associations : Richard, the lion-hearted, conferred upon it marks of royal favour; and with his memory are connected the crusades against the Saracens, the "pride, pomp, and circumstance” of chivalrous enterprise, and (resulting from the last of these) the earlier dawn of national refinement. Edward III. granted permission to castellate the edifice. With his name are associated the "harde foughten fieldes"-Cressy and Poictiers. The mention of Edward IV. refers us to those scenes of carnage with which the rival princes of York and Lancaster, in an age when freedom had not reached maturity, were permitted to "affright the peaceful land." Our ancient structures, therefore, whether lay or ecclesiastical, are sacred depositories of national history;—either records of glorious achievements and eventful periods, or venerable witnesses against tyranny and injustice, and the lawless aberrations of regal sway. If such be their uses, wisely may we adopt the prayer of the poet,

"that no proud, insulting foe

May ever lay these temples low,

Or violate these fanes ;

No moody fanatic deface

The works of wondrous art that grace

Antiquity's remains."