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knots. Now we are in Borrowdale ; and now 

 in Grange, formerly the property of the monks 

 of Furness Abbey; and that capacious barn 

 is of the olden time, and in accordance with 

 the name of the hamlet. Observe the extended 

 bridge, and the vast and wide spread beds of 

 drift, denoting a rush of water when in flood, 

 which, without such indications, you could 

 hardly have imagined, judging from the present 

 diminutive size of the river, now bearing 

 the name not of the Derwent, but of Borrow- 

 dale Beck. 



AMICUS. How neat are these low white- 

 washed cottages or farm-houses, with the row 

 of yew-trees standing before them*, denoting, 

 may I not say, comfort, strength, and anti- 

 quity. 



PISCATOE. The terms, I believe, are not 

 inappropriate, and they are applicable to all the 

 hamlets in this wild, grand, and sequestered 

 dale, as if under a special local influence. 

 These dalesmen, I may inform you, are most 

 independent, chiefly statesmen, not only having 

 landed property of their own, freehold, but 

 enjoying also manorial rights, each property 

 a little manor in itself, the possessor at liberty 



