OAKWOOD HALL.

VOL. I.

A Movel;

INCLUDING A DESCRIPTION OF

THE LAKES

OF

CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND,

AND

A PART OF SOUTH WALES.

BY CATHERINE HUTTON,

66

AUTHOR OF THE MISER MARRIED," AND
66 THE WELSH MOUNTAINEER."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street;

FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1819.

249. 5.566.

PREFACE.

OAKWOOD HALL, though last published as an entire work, was my first attempt at writing for the press, and is the one alluded to in the preface of the Miser Married, as having been undertaken upon reading a celebrated novel of great exuberance. The novel which occasioned it will be found in Mrs. Oakwood's library in the present