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'Living in Cumberland '

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Mr. WILFRID ROBERTS
(Newcastle Programme)
TRIS MORNING Wilfrid Roberts is to talk of an estuary in' a beautiful part of Cumberland which is little known. Here one may stand on English soil and look at Scotland over the water. On the Northern side, at the point, the granite range called Criffe!l stands sentinel to the Irish Sea, and on the far side, too, rise hills behind a village and a town linked with the names of two of Scotland's most famous sons: Carlyle, who was born at Ecclefechan, and Burns, who died at Dumfries.
And perhaps standing here with one's eyes on the firth, one recalls that winter morning in 1792 when a young customs officer, sent to watch a smuggler that had got into low water, wrote ' The Deil's awa' wi' the Excise-man
On the Cumberland side of the water is agricultural land, dotted with small farms. Salmon are caught in the tidal estuary with beams and ' haaf ' nets-one of the few places in England where nets are used for salmon.
Marsh flats, white sands ; a place of wild beauty ; for the very name of the estuary is beautiful. Solway Moss. What lovely names there are in Cumberland. Wilfrid Roberts will also speak of' Sowdy Powdies '-quicksands ; and he will tell of hapless horses and cattle that have got into them, and of how they are got out.

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