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death and of his canine friend. There are other accounts in print 
that require brief notice. 
Of these, in order of date we have first the Rev. Joseph Wilkin- 
son’s, for whose “Select Views in Cumberland and Westmorland 
and Lancashire,” Wordsworth wrote the preface, 1810—1821. 
He speaks of Red Tarn as “‘a desolate spot formerly haunted by 
eagles that built in the precipice which forms its western barrier. 
These birds used to wheel and hover round the head of the solitary 
angler.” Alas for the angler! The eagles were last seen upon 
Helvellyn in 1836. Eagles and tourists do not seem to get on 
well together. 
“Tt also,” continues Wilkinson, “now derives a melancholy 
interest from the fate of a young man, a stranger, who perished 
here a few years ago, by falling down the rocks in his attempts to 
cross over to Grasmere. His remains were discovered by means 
of a faithful dog who had lingered here for the space of three 
months, self-supported, and probably retaining to the last an 
attachment to the skeleton of its dead master.” It is clear that 
Wilkinson did not believe that the dog had turned cannibal. 
John Robinson wrote his “Guide to the Lakes” in 1819; he 
was rector of Clifton in Westmorland, and would be able easily to 
make any enquiries in Patterdale that he thought necessary, and it 
is probable that he had met Gough. He tells us that “in the 
spring of 1805 a young gentleman of talent and of a most amiable 
disposition, who was making a solitary tour, and had left Patter- 
dale with the hopes of reaching Wythburn, unhappily trusted too 
much to his own local knowledge, lost his way and perished 
beneath ‘the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn.” ‘This gentle- 
man, whose name was Charles Gough, had inquired at Patterdale 
for a guide to Wythburn; but there being, as it is believed, a 
review of the Volunteers in the neighbourhood on that day, no 
person could be procured to direct him. It snowed too on that 
day. He was therefore advised to remain at Patterdale till the 
day following ; but unhappily he did not comply with this advice. 
The remains of this unfortunate gentleman were not discovered 
till three months afterwards, when they were found guarded by a 
