Note JU — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 4)
Reading edition
Evidently a reminiscence of Penrith, a "straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud," with its castle on "the brow of a green hill," and with Brougham Castle close at hand, on "bank of rugged stream." See The Prelude (vol. iii. p. 229), and compare Gray's Journal.—ED.