WHINFIELD-HALL and PARK, (Westmorland) bet. Orton and Kendal. In the park is the harthorn-tree against which were nailed
the heads of a stag, and a buckhound, named Hercules, which chased the stag from this park as far as the Red-Kirk in
Scotland, (which they reckon at least 60 m.) and back again to the same place, where both were so spent, that the stag
leapt over the pale, and died on the inside, but the hound attempting to leap after him, fell back and died on the
outfide; therefore under their heads was fixed this couplet; " Hercules kill'd Hart-a-Greese, " And Hart-a-Greese kill'd
Hercules." On the W. side of this tree, on the old Roman way called the Maidenway, is the famous column, the finest of its
kind in Britain, called the Countess-pillar, because it was erected by the Countess of Pembroke, for the reason mentioned
in Brougham. It is of free-stone, curiously wrought and enchased, and in some places painted, and adorned with coats of
arms, dials, &c. and has an obelisk on the top, which is black, and has a brass plate with an inscription.