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wild fells on each side, is little inferior to 

 Kirkstore in savage grandeur. 



PISCATOK. It is indeed a wild pass ; and here 

 the waters divide. That little stream is the 

 infant Kothay ; and that other descends to 

 Wythburn, and is one of the principal feeders 

 of Thirlmere. Both take their rise in the 

 " mighty Helvellyn," the vast mountain mass 

 which we see rising on our right. 



AMICUS. Cultivation is again appearing. I 

 see a few houses, and lo ! there is a little chapel, 

 almost rivalling that of Wasdale-head in small- 

 ness, and built after the same model, with its 

 adjunct (the two emblematic of good and evil) 

 the public house.* 



PISCATOE. See the long line of lake is open- 

 ing out before us. Yonder is Eagle, or, more 

 corrrectly, Grlimmer-crag, Crag of the Ewe- 

 lamb, and yonder is Kaven-crag ; and there is 

 " the Eock of Names." 



AMICUS. What mean you by that, " the Eock 

 of Names?" 



PISCATOR. Stop and look. What see you on 

 that perpendicular face ? 



* " The Horse," late " The Nag*s Head; " later, when 

 " The Waggoner " was written, " The Cherry Tree." 



