Yorkshire Notes and Queries.

J. M. W. TURNER. "There was no County in England to which Turner was so much attached as Yorkshire. . . It was here on the Wolds, and beside the banks of the Wharfe, that he first (after Wales) saw really wild scenery. He loved it because he had gathered in its ruined Abbeys the chief treasures of his Liber,' and because there he found the past and present times in the most striking juxtaposition.

Mr. Ruskin says, and we cannot quote a higher authority, The scenery, whose influence I can trace most definitely throughout his Works, varied as they are, is that of Yorkshire.'"-Thornbury's Life of Turner.

Lines on a Remarkable Circumstance

CONNECTED WITH BRETTON HALL, NEAR BARNSLEY.

[From an undated Broadside, once very popular, and taken for fact. Fortunately for their credit they are simply styled Lines.]

At Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, known so well,
Sir William Wentworth Blackett once did dwell;
That mansion was his own,-there, with his bride,
In pomp and splendour, he did once reside;
Yet, in the midst of all that he possessed,

A rambling mind disturb'd Sir William's breast.
His lady and his home he left behind,-

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Says he, The end of this wide world I'll find;
The earth's extensive, but you may depend on 't,
Before e'er I return I'll find the end on 't.
So he embark'd on board a ship we find,
And, sailing, left her ladyship behind,
Who, oft in sorrow did his absence mourn,
And, sighing said, 'O that he would return,
For be his voyage rough or smooth at sea,
It is a cruel, bitter blast to me.'

Sir William, he rolls on through winds and waves;
Undaunted, he all kinds of weather braves;
Nor his strange project ever relinquish'd he,
Till one and twenty years he'd been at sea;

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Then, p'rhaps he thought, Good lack the world is round,
The end is nowhere, so it can't be found;
And as I'm weary of this wild-goose chase,
At home again, ere long, I'll show my face.'
Then off he set, but little was aware