Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review (Volume 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... The Antiquarian Magazine & Bibliographer. Nomenclature near the CorDer Jills of Hancasirire anD gorfes&ire. F the reader were standing near one of the high hills that divide the counties of York and Lancaster, he would behold a strange blending of the new and the old world, almost side by side, nineteenth century civilisation and mediaeval ruins, little manufacturing towns with viaduct and chimney and mill at the foot of rugged and hoary mountains, far up on whose slopes may be visited quaint antique villages, which yet retain here and there gateway and tower crusted with the lichens and mosses of many ages. Let him look down to the valleys, and he will mark new houses, railway cuttings, and much smoke. Let him lift up his eyes to the hills, and his gaze may wander, when the summits are reached, for leagues and leagues over purple and solitudinous tracts of moorland, as blameless of all disfigurement of factory or shop as when primeval Celt trod the virgin heather. There is as marked a contrast in what he hears as well as in what he beholds. The street, the factory, the mansion may be severally named after American statesman, Metropolitan building, or province in. Asia Minor. The town a vast and modern extension of an old village, probably bears a Saxon designation; the brook gliding under the pavement glides on with the name given by our VOL. IV.--No. 22. o Pagan forefathers; whilst the mountain range in the far background retains the sound and syllables of a lost Celtic speech. The merchant addresses his men in correct and cultured English, but now and again there steps into his warehouse an old-fashioned octogenarian, the denizen of some remote mountain hamlet, who speaks a dialect so strongly smacking of ancient Saxon that his master, if not native born, ...