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good use of them. There is a good example 

 in Wordsworth's Poems on the naming of 

 places, in that entitled Joanna. I will task 

 my memory to repeat some of the resounding 

 lines : 



" When I had gazed perhaps two minutes' space, 



Joanna, looking in my eyes, beheld 



That ravishment of mine, and laughed aloud. 



The rock, like something starting from a sleep, 



Took up the Lady's voice and laughed again ; 



That ancient Woman seated on Helm-crag, 



Was ready with her cavern; Hammar-Scar, 



And the tall steep of Silver-How, sent forth 



A noise of laughter ; southern Loughrigg heard, 



And Fairfield answered with a mountain tone : 



Helvellyn far into the clear blue sky, 



Carried the Lady's voice ; old Skiddaw blew 



His speaking-trumpet ; back out of the clouds 



Of Glaramara southward came the voice ; 



And Kirkstone tossed it from his misty head." 



And besides their poetical use, let me tell 

 you, they have another, an historical one, 

 they are, as it were, the records of the early 

 times of the district and of its inhabitants, 

 of which for proof let me recommend to you 

 for perusal a little work containing a good deal 

 of research, lately published, entitled "The 

 Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland," 

 the author of which, as you may infer from the 



