The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ion in Lake-land tluit this jnece of water is never frozen, but tins is dearly an error, for tliereis a distinct record by the learned brotlier of Sir Humphry Davy that it waspartly c<jvcred with ice in the great frost of ). The desolate crags around tlielake arc answerable for nnich of its severe character, and perhaps it was on thisaccount that the Lakers used to it. AVaugh, the Lancashire poet, encountereda local gossip who was full of memories of Wordsworth, Wilson, De (^t
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ion in Lake-land tluit this jnece of water is never frozen, but tins is dearly an error, for tliereis a distinct record by the learned brotlier of Sir Humphry Davy that it waspartly c<jvcred with ice in the great frost of ). The desolate crags around tlielake arc answerable for nnich of its severe character, and perhaps it was on thisaccount that the Lakers used to it. AVaugh, the Lancashire poet, encountereda local gossip who was full of memories of Wordsworth, Wilson, De (^tuiiicey, and The Irt.] WASTWATER. 297 Sedgwick, and the man very much amused his listener by describing Wordsworthas a very quiet old man, who had no pride, and very little to say. ChristopherNorth was naturally a horse of another colour, being full of his gambols, andcreating gieat excitement by his spirited contests with one of the Cumberlandwrestlers. Wastwatcr is t)ften violently agitated by heavy squalls from the south,which is somewhat of an anomalv, seeimr that the boundary on that side is a. THE COCKEK AT KIUKGATE (p. 300). mighty natural rampart named the Screes, so called from the loose natuie ofthe scarps, which tend to make some of the neighbouring mountains practicallyinaccessible. Ennerdale Water, a few miles to the north, receives its first influx from theriver Liza, locally known as Lissa Beck. It is a lovely valley, and there is noovercrowding of population. The last house is the farmhouse of Gillerthwaite, progress upwards to the mountains is by footpath only. This is in truththe only excuse for mentioning the Liza, though it might serve as an opportunityfor singing the praises of the Great Gable, formerly known as the Green is one of the most consjjijuous of mountain heads, and its frowning peak meetsthe view from great distances. Pillar Mountain, which is nearer Ennerdale Plain,is almost exactly the same height—2,927 feet, which is abo
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