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desolate, in part, and for most part, cultivated, 

 not unlike that bordering on Ennerdale in one 

 'direction, and on Hawes Water in the opposite, 

 and like each of those rather arable than pastoral, 

 growing largely oats and barley, but little 

 wheat. This pretty suburb of Keswick, which 

 we are now passing through, is Portinscale. 



AMICUS. What is the name of this deep 

 hollow, shut in seemingly on all sides, which 

 we are now entering ? 



PISCATOR. It is Braithwaite ; a spot of bad 

 character for unwholesomeness, attributed, I 

 do not know how justly, to its confined air and 

 bad drainage. Groitre is said to be common 

 here ; and yet the water is reputed good. 



AMICUS. What is this moorland which we are 

 now ascending. Here certainly there is no 

 deficiency of ventilation. 



PISCATOR. This is Windlatter. The guide 

 with whom I first crossed it, maintained that 

 its proper name is Windclatter ; it is so exposed 

 to the winds. And this reminds me of the 

 conversation we then had about storms, and the 

 incidents he related of their effects. Probably 

 you have never heard of what is called by the 

 shepherds " storm-stricken ; " individuals dying 



