Library and Reading-Rooms of Mr. Langdale, the Bookseller and Publisher, at High Harrogate, are from their extensive and well-arranged supply particularly worthy of notice. The Promenade Room, at Low Harrogate, opened in 1805, is well frequented, and found extremely useful in cold, wet, unseasonable weather. This capacious Room, seventy five feet long by thirty broad, is open for public meetings of all descriptions, which during the season succeed each other with great rapidity.

The late Mr. Williams, the spirited proprietor of the Cheltenham, or Saline Chalybeate Spring, having tastefully laid out the grounds adjoining, which are well adapted for the purpose, with walks, seats, and shade, and erected a splendid building, termed the Royal Promenade and Cheltenham Pump Room, into which the water of the spring is conveyed. This room is one

hundred feet long by thirty broad; and is decorated internally with great magnificence; the pier glasses and Chandeliers being of the largest size and best construction. A circulating library is attached, and during the season the room is well supplied with the daily and weekly effusions of London and provincial press. It was opened with much pomp and festivity in August, 1835; and

from the various advantages connected with it, continues well and deservedly frequented.

PUBLIC BATHS, the want of which had been so long and justly complained of by the faculty, and felt by the public, have also being recently erected. As if to make amends for the previous delay, two complete suites of these important auxiliaries to health have been built and fitted up in the most approved, convenient, and elegant style. Here Mr. Williams again took the lead; his Baths are situated immediately adjoining the Old Promenade Room; they are central and easy of access, particularly for the visitors at Low Harrogate. It is perhaps to be regretted, that from the nature of the situation, and other circumstances connected with their elevation arising from their proximity to the Promenade Room, the building on which so much money has been expended, could not have been rendered more ornamental. The Baths are supplied from a spring rising within the building, which has not hitherto been particularly analyzed, but which is understood to be one of the oldest Sulphur Wells, from which water for Bathing had been obtained for many years. Upwards of forty baths either hot or cold can be supplied here daily at the shortest notice.

The late Mr. Thackwray, of the Crown Hotel, soon afterwards commenced, and lived to finish an

elegant suite of public baths. These are situated in the pleasure grounds at the north end of the hotel, immediately adjoining the sulphur spring No. 2 of the analysis. This situation is admirably adapted for the purpose, the grounds as laid out being well sheltered and tastefully ornamented with walks and shrubberies, and now form one of the most delightful home promenades for invalids in Harrogate. The supply of water for these baths as connected with the spring No. 2, and other sources is abundant, and of the best quality. In addition to the usual hot and cold baths, vapour, hot air, and fumigating baths, with the general or local application of each, are constructed upon the present most approved principles. Two large rooms extending the whole front of the building, are handsomely fitted up, and used at present as waiting-rooms.

The erection, then, of these two splendid suites. of baths, will for the future effectually remove the reproach to which Harrogate was so long subjected, in comparison with other watering places of much inferior pretentions, in reference to this useful branch of medical hygiene.

The season, so called, commences early in the spring, and continues to the latter end of autumn, but the greatest influx of company is during the months of July, August, and September. It is

calculated that of late years there have been upwards of thirty thousand visitors annually. From the advantages of field sports and other causes, some even prolong their stay over the winter. No stronger proof can be afforded of the efficacy of the waters, than the continued and increasing resort of such a number of visitors.

The roads about Harrogate have of late years been greatly improved, though there is still room left for additional amendment; nor is this to be wondered at, seeing that a blind man* was in the first instance employed to lay out the principal lines of road in the neighbourhood, upon the ingenious principle doubtless, that where such an individual could travel, any one with two eyes might surely follow.

If irregularity is the basis of the picturesque, Harrrogate yields to no place in England. The buildings which separately are in many instances elegant, are some of them, and those too of the latest erection, so placed as if intended for a nuisance to the next neighbour or his lodgers.

Leaving Harrogate,+therefore, where a bountiful

John Metcalfe, better known by the appellation of Blind Jack of Knaresbrough, of whom many singular anecdotes are told. He served as a guide over the forest, and contracted for making roads, building bridges, &c.

† Langdale's Harrogate Visitors' Guide, affords a fund of useful and amusing information on every subject connected with this district. A new and much improved edition has lately been published.

providence has bestowed more than man hitherto has developed, the pedestrian may soon gain the banks of the river Nidd, and woo health, solitude, the muses, or whatever is dearest to his wishes, by its shaded and romantic stream; or turn his steps towards the sequestered village of Pannal, anciently Rosehurst, a name still sufficiently applicable. The Church is a Vicarage, dedicated to St. Robert; the first incumbent recorded is John Brown, 1348; the Rev. Thomas Simpson at present holds the living. There is an excellent modern school where one hundred and fifty children are instructed according to the system of Dr. Bell. It is a matter of tradition that Charles the first passed through this village in the spring of 1647, surrounded by those men or their agents, who soon afterwards brought the unfortunate monarch to the block. The wellmounted equestrian or experienced whip, can shortly among other less distinguished places, visit the ancient and interesting town of Knaresborough, Plumpton, Boroughbridge, Aldborough, HarewoodHouse, Hackfall, Swinton, Ripley Castle, Ripon, Fountains Abbey, Studley, and Newby. A wider range will lead him to Bolton Priory in the beautiful valley of the Wharfe, inferior to none in England; to York the ancient capital of the kingdom, or to the commercial and enterprising town of Leeds.