52 PROFESSOR HENRY REED. 



perished by shipwreck, returning from this 

 country, his first visit, as well as his last. 

 May he, too, not be 



u Without the meed of some melodious tear." 



Now let us descend, and be careful, for our 

 descent will be by a shorter way than our 

 ascent, of greater steepness, and not without 

 risk, where the rocks are rugged, and so nearly 

 precipitous, that a false step might cost you 

 your life. 



AMICUS. Besides trout, are there any other 

 fish in the tarn we have just left, and in that 

 we are descending upon ? From their situation, 

 bounded by such lofty heights, I infer they are 

 deep; and as deep water is favourable to the 

 charr, am I right in supposing that there are 

 charr in them ? 



PISCATOR. They may have been once deep, 

 but at present they are not remarkably so; 

 there is hardly a winter that they are not 

 frozen over. Judging from the debris on the 

 skirting hill sides, there must be a vast accu- 

 mulation of the same in their beds. As to the 

 fish in them, in Goodie Tarn I believe there is 

 only one kind, the trout: in Easedale Tarn 



