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and I shall endeavour to remember it, and let 

 any Mend of mine, desirous of settling here, 

 have the benefit of your experience. The river 

 we are now come to I recognise again as the 

 Brathay. How charming it is in its long reach, 

 in its varied aspect of pool and rapid, with so 

 many accompaniments of beauty, and especially 

 the terminating mountains, rising like towers 

 aericB arces in the distance, and, by the 

 bye, they are very like in form those summits 

 to which the term was first applied by Virgil. 



PISCATOR. Yes, but on a grander scale than 

 the Corcyrean ; they are Langdale pikes at the 

 head of Langdale, rising above Dungeon Grhyll 

 Force and Stickle Tarn. The former of poetic 

 celebrity, and a good example of the attraction 

 that poetry can impart to a spot ; the other 

 as deserving, but less sung, less attractive : so 

 accidental even is local fame. Let me call 

 your attention to the chapel we are now 

 passing Brathay Chapel, somewhat foreign 

 in its aspect, but chiefly remarkable from the 

 circumstance of owing its existence to gratitude, 

 for success in business on the part of its 

 erector, a feeling shown further in that ad- 



