A Run To The Lakes : Keswick.

preserved ; and right in front of the principal doorway reposes , in solemn grandeur , the magnificent recumbent statue , in white marble , of the poet Southey .

"His joys , his griefs , have vanish'd like a cloud , From Skiddaw ' s top . " * As for the town itself , it is rather irregularly built , consisting of one principal street , with a number of smaller street , intersected by lanes , enclosed courts , yards , and narrow passages . Most

of the houses are built with the clay slate rubble of the district , and many are rough-cast and limewashed on the outside . The plan of the town , as seen in a bird ' s-eye view from any of the surrounding Mils , somewhat resembles the threelegged figure on a Manx penny . The public

buildings are small and unimportant . The townhall is an ugly black rubble building , erected in 1818 , of the Scotch Presbyterian Church type ; St . John's Church , erected and endowed by tlie lord of the manor , Mr . Marshall , is a rather neat

early English structure , built of a light pink freestone ashlar , from the quarry near Greystoke ; and the Cumberland Union Bank , which is the only other building worth mentioning , is a handsome square block , built of Borrowdale greenstone , with tasteful quoins , string- courses ' , window

openings , and doorposts of white sandstone , from Cockermouth . In the town-hall is exhibited Mr . Fliufcoif ' s elaborate model of the Lake district , which we strongly recommend to the study of all visitors who wish to master the topography of the country ; and in Crosthwaite's Museum there is a

perfect mine of mineral wealth and antiquarian relics peculiar to the district . One Roman sword and one cinary urn we saw were in a state of perfect preservation , and were pronounced by Sir E . B . Lytton to bo the best specimens he had seen . The founder of this museum was the ingenious

meteorologist who is mentioned in connexion with Dal to a . Ho was the ori ginal inventor of the lifeboat ; of an improved species of iEolicva harp ; ancl also of a series of musical stones , ' composed of rough flat sonorous boulders , of the native Hornblendic slate , upon which the lady in

attendance plays very pretty polkas and Scotch strathspeys . Specimens of the rocks and minerals of the district , we may mention , may be procured at this museum for a very moderate sum . Keswick also possesses an excellent grammar-school , a public library , and a mechanics' institute .

The population of Keswick in 1801 was 1 , 350 ; in 1821 , 1 , 901 ; in 1841 , 2 , 375 ; and in 1861 , 2 , 610 . Of course , this does not convey a proper idea of the surrounding- jjopnLition , which is growing more rapidly . The valuation of Keswick township in 1864 is . as follows : —Crosthwaite

division , £ 2 , 880 ; St . John's division , £ 4 , 948 10 s .: total , £ 7 , 828 10 s . There is a gas company ( established in the year 1845 ) , which supplies the town with gas at 6 s . per 1 , 000 cubic feet . There is also a witter company ( established in 1856 ) , which derives its supply from the stream and springs on

Skiddaw , and delivers it , on the constant service system , at a moderate rate—to the poorer cottages , we were tolcl , at a penny a week . What a boon would such a thing as this be for Bethual-green ! Finally , Keswick is at this very moment being furnished with a system of main drainagefrom

, the plans of Mr . Lawson , C . E ., and at a cost of about £ 1 , 000 . Few every-day tourists , we dare say , care about visiting a place under the operation of drainage for the first time ; but to us it awakens a feeling something like that which a

tired and thirsty pilgrim in the desert is said to experience when lie discovers a well which has been dug by some previous traveller . Our predecessor in this case was Mr . R-awlinson , whose very able report to the Board of Health in 1852 is now before us . To recapitulate the

sanitai-y condition of Keswick as set forth in that report would be to describe a condition of thing-s which , fortunately for the inhabitants , has passed away . Twelve years have elapsed before the unwelcome troths which he tolcl , and the unanswerable statistics which he produced , have fully done

their work . ' But in that period Keswick has been purged from its horrible nuisances , supplied with , water , and at length sufficiently drained . A phy sician of the district , Dr . Leitch , who was mainly instrumental in organising the preliminary inquiijand opposing the narrow and confined ideas of the local authority , deserves , we think , a public acknowledgment of his valuable services . There

wore lanes and alleys in Keswick at that time whose rate of mortality was higher than that of the most densely populated manufacturing- districts ; and ho could point out , within a circuit of a few miles , localities in whicli scrofula , measles , small-pox , ancl typhus fever had left their ravages ,

which districts , with proper sanitary precautions , might have altogether escaped . It will be an interesting task to compare tho local death-rate a year hence with that which represented the mortality of Keswick even a few years ago . Ancl to this end we must still urge the local sanitary

reformers not to abate one jot or tittle of their exertions ; for a long experience of the municipal obstructive malady has taught us to be constantly careful of its tendency to relapse . The Cockermouth , Keswick , and Penrith Bailway , which is now in process of construction , is

the next great improvement we must note in . the district . It will connect the hitherto isolated capital of the lakes with two important main lines , and will afford incalculable advantages in facilities of travelling , as well as in the transport of commodities . At present it costs as much nearly to convey a ton of dry goods from Keswick to Wia-