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rough ground in the ascent, we shall be rather suprised to find the 

 top flat, smooth, and grassy, and sheep quietly browsing as if in a 

 sheltered meadow. The view from the top is very fine and 

 extended ; Ennerdale, the lake, fields, and farms being mapped 

 out beneath us. At this elevated point we find, in many places, 

 the ground covered with silky-leaved plants, known as the Alpine 

 ladies' mantle ; and, like the least willow, only a denizen of the 

 higher mountains. A little beyond the highest point of the 

 mountain, which, by the way is over 2,900 feet above the sea, 

 there is an easy descent, which leads us to the foot of the Pillar 

 Rock ; and no one can be said to have properly seen the Enner- 

 dale Valley unless he has, to some extent, explored the precipices 

 of this mountain, and stood at the foot of the Pillar Rock. This 

 rock, which gives its name to the mountain, presents a striking 

 figure as seen from the valley below; but it is only on near 

 approach that we can see to full advantage its towering height 

 and massiveness. On a fine calm day, we seldom hear any sound 

 in this desolate region except the bleat of a sheep, or the scream 

 of the buzzard as it circles high up in the air, with now and then 

 the hoarse croak of the raven, whose nest is in some precpice of 

 the mountain. The descent from the foot of the rock is over 

 rather rough ground, but there is very little difficulty in reaching 

 the bottom of the valley, nor much more so in crossing the Lizza, 

 which, as seen from above, looks like a narrow silvery stream 

 winding down the valley. Any one travelling down this inner 

 valley, must have observed that a very great number of streams and 

 springs fall into the Lizza from both sides. From this circumstance 

 we may conjecture that the name Lizza comes from the Anglo- 

 Saxon word, lisan, to gather ; the Lizza being truly the gatherer 

 of almost numberless streamlets from the mountains. 



After passing the farm of Gillerthwaite, we ascend the hill of 

 Latterbarrow, a few hundred feet in height, by an easy and gradual 

 climb. Near to the top of the sloping ground, facing the east, we 

 find here and there small heaps of stones, such as are very 

 frequent in other parts of the Lake district. There is perhaps 

 some kind of order in the arrangement, and it is assumed by 



