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smelts, and described them as about six inches 

 long. 



AMICUS. The likeness of this lake to that of 

 Ennerdale increases as we advance. What 

 a grand mass of mountain is that on our 

 left ; and how fine are those mountains in the 

 distance, towering one over the other. 



PISCATOK. The first you pointed to, the 

 nearest, that on the left, on the brow of which 

 snow is still resting, is Grasmore; the more 

 distant are Eed Pike, High Stile, Great Gable, 

 the Haycocks, Green Gable, and Honister 

 Crag. 



AMICUS. Pray what is the name of that 

 dale, scooped as it were from the great moun- 

 tain mass of Grasmore ; and so finely modelled 

 as if a work of exquisite art, if I may so speak, 

 a perfect mountain corry, as the Highlanders 

 would call it ? 



PISCATOR. It is Eanadale; and, to anticipate 

 your questioning, those headlands which we 

 are nearing, and where the lake appears to ter- 

 minate, are Linn Crag and Hawes Point. 



AMICUS. The upper portion of the lake, 

 just opening, pleases me much. How pretty 

 are these wooded islets on our right ; and how 



