Note 277 — Chapter IV · SURNAMES OF OCCUPATION (COUNTRY).

The roads between Cumberland and Northumberland were of the roughest and most dangerous character till the seventeenth century, when General Wade, in the course of his progress against the rebels, laid down some of a better kind. The following couplet has been handed down as the effort of some local poet:—

‘If you’d ever been here

When these roads were not made,

You would lift up your hands

And bless General Wade.’