64 GLACIAL PERIOD. 



of which we thus see, or presume we see, the 

 effects ? 



PISCATOR. From the nature of the materials 

 of which the drifts or moraines consist, the 

 glacial period here, it may be inferred, was 

 a recent one in geological history ; and, were 

 we authorised in coming to a conclusion, from 

 the circumstance that nothing organic has yet 

 been discovered in these accumulations, no 

 implement of art, no bones, no remains of 

 trees, it would be that the glacial followed 

 the fiery period, and was anterior to the time 

 of the country being inhabited by man, or even 

 in a state fitting it for the support of animals 

 or plants. But the inquiry is in its infancy: I 

 can lay no stress on this inference. 



AMICUS. We crossed two mountain streams 

 on our way, and saw three pretty lakes or tarns ; 

 what were they ? 



PISCATOR. That long piece of water in 

 Langdale, more like a river than a lake, and 

 from which the Brathay flows, is Elter Water ; 

 the next is little Langdale Tarn, a tarn 

 abounding in trout of herring size ; and the 

 third, at a greater elevation, is Blea Tarn, of 

 which, in the "Excursion," you will find a 



