MOUNTAIN VIEWS. 37 



AMICUS. The more conspicuous mountains 

 diverted my attention; now you direct it to 

 them, I fancy I can distinguish four or five. 

 Pray what are they ? 



PISCATOK. That immediately below us is 

 Easedale Tarn, which is partly fed from this 

 tarn, this probably nearly 1000 feet above it ;' 

 the next is Grasmere ; the next, Kydalmere ; 

 and the last and most distant, Windermere ; 

 the whole constituting one chain, and owing 

 their origin to so many basin-like depressions 

 in the ground formed when the mountains 

 were uplifted, and their enduring character as 

 lakes to the abundant supply of water in the 

 form of rain with which this district is blessed. 



AMICUS. How peculiar is the silence, as well 

 as solitude of this lofty region. Since we have 

 been here, the only sound I have heard has 

 been that of the lone cuckoo, that " wandering 

 voice." How different from the dale by which 

 we ascended, which I think you called Far- 

 Easedale ; there even in its upper and wildest 

 part, I was charmed with the pastoral sounds, 

 the bleating of the sheep and lambs, making 

 the solitude cheerful. Pray, has the sheep any 

 note or cry of alarm ? I fancy I heard one, 



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