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description, with its surrounding scenery, in 

 the account of the Kecluse, whose abode was 

 in the solitary farm-house, such a one as there 

 still is in this secluded little highland dale. 

 The rivers we passed were the Duddon, so well 

 known now in song, in its infant stage near its 

 source, which we crossed at Cockley Beck, and 

 the Esk, somewhat further from its source, a 

 stream, to my mind, in its purity, frequent falls 

 and deep pools in rocky basins, not less deserving 

 of a poet's notice, perhaps in its beautiful 

 wildness and accompaniments even more worthy 

 of admiration. Nowhere does Scawfell, the 

 highest of our mountains, appear to such ad- 

 vantage as from the upper valley of the Esk, 

 with its companion Bowfell, rising grandly in 

 their drear moorland solitude. 



AMICUS. In ascending from Langdale, we 

 had a view of a pretty water-fall. Can you tell 

 me its name ? 



PISCATOR. It is Colwith-Force, the stream 

 a tributary of the Brathay. I am glad that you 

 have mentioned it, not that I intend to descant 

 on its beauty, but to notice a fact relative to 

 the Charr, which has lately come to my know- 

 ledge ; namely, its ascending thus far and 



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