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In our next will appear, " An Excursion from York to New Malton and Castle-Howard," by our correspondent, R.-A letter of JOHN WILSON, Esq. late of Broomhead-Hall, relating to the town of Sheffield,—P. H.—and the account of British Bravery.

Mr. B. SIGSTON's letter, and the paper on "Pride and Vanity," came too late for this month.

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We are very sensible of the prompt attention and kindness of the author of the Obituary of Mr. Astley, and are obliged to Mr. TURNER for his account of Mr. W. Wilson, of Beverley. We invite similar notices of persons in our own or the neighbouring counties. The account of Handsworth will be acceptable.

We have received a letter from H. B. U. pointing out to the readers of the Northern Star, how "the effution of nonsense might be avoided," but do not pledge ourselves to insert it.

We have to apologize to our Readers for the non-appearance of the remainder of the account of Tickhill. It shall appear the next month.

ANGUS' piece was printed off before his correction arrived. We therefore request the Reader to substitute the following line, in the piece on Milton, in. p. 456,

For

"Around the throne each glorious Cherub sung."

"Around the throne th' exalted Cherubs sung."

NORTHERN STAR.

No. 6.---For DECEMBER, 1817.

Picturesque Scenery, Antiquities, &c.

A WALK FROM LEEDS TO KIRKSTALL ABBEY.

THE

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THE sun was declining as we left the busy town of Leeds for the purpose of paying an evening-visit to Kirkstall Abbey. Anxious to behold these venerable ruins clothed in their most imposing attire, we had selected the close of the day for our excursion, and the result established the correctness of our anticipations.

Two roads nearly parallel with each other lead from Leeds to the vicinity of Kirkstall. One passes along the valley near the banks of the Aire, the other occupies the range of hill on the right: to those who travel for picturesque purposes, the higher road is decidedly the best; it commands a more extended prospect, and it leads to a situation whence the abbey of Kirkstall, and the gently-swelling hills within which it is sequestered, burst instantaneously upon the eye. The time of the day was happily chosen: a warm sunny light and a broad mass of shadow, the effects of a setting sun, gave us Kirkstall in all the plenitude of its beauty. The glories of heaven were poured out and spread abroad upon the earth, and the woods and the meadows of Aire Dale, and the ruins of its venerable abbey, were in a glow with the rich but softened splendour of a summer-evening's declining sun.

Ah, who can look on Nature's face,

And feel unholy passions move?
Her forms of majesty and grace

I cannot choose but love.

MONTGOMERY.

England, in the grandeur and sublimity of its scenery, is no doubt inferior to many other countries: its rivers are in general devoid of majesty; the hills by which its surface is agreeably broken and diversified but rarely swell into mountains; and its rocks and woods are seldom characterised by greatness; yet with all this striking inferiority, English landscape is ne