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oaks, hollies, yews and birches, comes down to the very 

 water-edge with here and there a bright green thwaite 

 surrounded by dry stone walls heavy with the lichens of 

 centuries. High on the brown moor above the line of cop- 

 pice-wood, you descry the fields and houses of two ancient 

 farms, the first called Lawson Park, the other Park-a-moor. 

 In the survey of the ancient possessions of Furness Abbey, 

 we find these two little high-lying holdings classed under the 

 head of ^ Granges in Furness Fells,' the annual value of each 

 being given at one pound ten. It is said that the fires 

 in these old farm houses have not been extinguished for 

 some hundreds of years, probably not since the farm-houses 

 were erected. The peat, used as fuel, was easily kept 

 alight, and the distance of the farmer from any neighbours 

 and the non-existence of lucifer matches rendered it highly 

 desirable that their hearths should never be cold. The Kir 

 3Eslanti forms a conspicuous object on this side of the lake. 

 On the western side, as you look back over the hall and 

 village, you observe how boldly the Old Man seems to detach 

 himself from his neighbours and how he stands forth self- 

 asserting and independent, only stretching out an arm, on 

 the one side, to Wetherlam and, on the other, to Dow Crags, 

 the latter of which presents a wild and rifted aspect ap- 

 parent even at this distance, and both are seen more and 

 more at large as your southerly course removes the 

 vast bulk of the Old Man from the line of view. The 

 Old Man subsides on the west into Gait's Hause — Gait's 

 Hause rises into Dow Crags, — these again subside into 

 Brown Pike — Brown Pike into Walna Scar — Walna Scar 

 into White Maidens, the last completing the range in that 

 direction, and abruptly sinking into Broughton Moor. On 

 the same side you will have passed the old wood-covered deer- 

 park extending from the lake-side a mile and more over the 



