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what we were to see on quitting the dale, but 

 the grand view now opening out before us 

 greatly exceeds them. How like a mighty pro- 

 montory is this Honister Crag, and were the 

 atmosphere less clear, the lowland to which it 

 descends by a such a steep escarpment would 

 not ill represent the sea. Nor, in the opposite 

 direction, looking towards Helvellyn, is the pros- 

 pect, though totally different, less peculiar: I 

 could fancy myself in Norway and on its higher 

 fells, which surely cannot be wilder or more 

 rugged, or bearing probably a more wintry 

 aspect, every summit we see, and a good part 

 of the general surface, being covered with snow. 

 Pray what is that path-like line descending 

 from the crag, so like a slide, such as boys 

 make for their amusement down a steep rock or 

 bank? 



PISCATOK. It is a sledge track, by which 

 slates are brought from the quarry above, nearly 

 2000 feet above the level of the sea, and it may 

 be over 1000 feet in direct descent to the 

 mountain road. The poor men who work here 

 have a hard and perilous labour ; they accom- 

 pany the sledge in its descent, and when emp- 

 tied of its load, they have to drag it back 



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