A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England
With a Description of the Scenery, For the Use of Tourists and Residents
William Wordsworth
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A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England
With a Description of the Scenery, For the Use of Tourists and Residents
William Wordsworth
About This Book
Born in the Lake District, this book could be seen as William's appreciation for the surrounding areas of the Lake District and the people who lived in it.BRBRIn this book, William Wordsworth has created the perfect traveller's guide. He does so in words that will leave you stunned, enthralled and yearning. This work not only reflects the poet's love of the Lake District, it describes the scenery of the many journeys he took through England's Lake District.BR BRWhen you read this book, you'll be transported to a time when England's lakes were sparkling, nature spoke to you and the breath-taking scenery would have left you speechless. The Lake District is not what it used to be. But if you ever go there, take this book with you and experience the beauty of the district once again, with words of a romantic poet that will bring your imagination to life.
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ITINERARY OF THE LAKES,
for the Use of Tourists.
Notes
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- Mr. Greenās Guide to the Lakes, in two vols., contains a complete Magazine of minute and accurate information of this kind, with the names of mountains, streams, &c.
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- No longer strictly applicable, on account of recent plantations.
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- See reference page.
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- Anciently spelt Langden, and so called by the old inhabitants to this dayādean, from which the latter part of the word is derived, being in many parts of England a name for a valley.
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- See that admirable Idyllium, the Catillus and Salia, of Landor.
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- In fact there is not an instance of a harbour on the Cumberland side of the Solway frith that is not dry at low water; that of Ravenglass, at the mouth of the Esk, as a natural harbour is much the best. The Sea appears to have been retiring slowly for ages from this coast. From Whitehaven to St. Bees extends a track of level ground, about five miles in length, which formerly must give been under salt water, so as to have made an island of the high ground that stretches between it and the Sea.
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- This species of fir is in character much superior to the American which has usurped its place: Where the fir is planted for ornament, let it be by all means of the aboriginal species, which can only be procured from the Scotch nurseries.
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- A squirrel (so I have heard the old people of Wytheburn say) might have gone from their chapel to Keswick without alighting on the ground.
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- Dr. Brown, the author, of this fragment, was from his infancy brought up in ...