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PISCATOR. This is Scalehill, and is it 

 not charmingly situated ? There is the river 

 below, flowing out of the lake here hid from 

 us ; and the many singing birds we hear making 

 music is a sure sign that there is no want 

 of wood and cover. A friend, who resides in 

 the neighbourhood, has placed his boat at our 

 disposal; we shall find it, I have no doubt, 

 ready in the boat-house close to the water. 



AMICUS. Now we are a little off the shore, 

 this lake reminds me of that of Ennerdale. 

 What is its size ? 



PISCATOR. Both in form and size it does 

 not differ much from the one you have named, 

 being about three miles in length, three-quarters 

 of a mile in width where broadest, and about 

 a quarter of a mile where narrowest. Its 

 depth is such that it rarely freezes; in its 

 deepest parts, it has been found to be twenty- 

 two fathoms: the last winter but one, the 

 greatest portion of it was covered with ice, 

 which I have been assured had not occurred 

 for forty years before. 



AMICUS. As there are gleams of sunshine 



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