SPRINGS, RIVERS, CANALS, LAKES, 



broader projecting hill shagged \vith wood, arid illuminated by the 

 sun, which glanced sideways on the upper part of the cataract. The 

 force of the water wearing a deep channel in the ground, hurries 

 away to join the lake. We descended again, and passed ihe stream 

 over a rude bridge. Soon alter we came under Gowdar-crag, a iiiil 

 more formidable to the eye, and to tiie apprehension, than that of 

 Lawdoor; the rocks at top deep-cloven perpendicularly, by li;e rains, 

 hanging loose and nodding forwards, seem just starting from their 

 base in shivers. The whole way down, and the road on both sides 

 is strewed with piles of the fragments strangely thrown across each 

 other, and of a dreadful bulk; the place reminds me of those passe* 

 in the Alp?, where the guides tell you to move on with speed, and 

 say nothing, lest the agitation of the air should loosen the snows 

 above, and bring down a mass that would overwhelm a caravan. I 

 took their coun*>el here, and hastened on in silence. 



Non ragioniam di lur, ma guardu, e passa ! 



The hills here are clothed all up iheir sleep sides with oak, ash, 

 birch, holly, &c. some of it has been cut forty years ago, some 

 witi.ia these eight years; yet all is sprung again, green, flourish, 

 ing, and tall, for its age, in a place where no soil appears but the 

 staring rock, and where a man could scarce stand upright : here we 

 met a civil young tanner overseeing his reapers (for it is now oat. 

 harvest) who conducted us to a neat white house in the village of 

 Grange, which is built on a rising ground in the midst ot a valley; 

 round it the mountains form an awful amphitheatre, and through it 

 obliquely runs the Derwent clear as glass, and shewing under its 

 bridge every trout that passes. Beside the vilhge rises a round 

 eminence of rock covered entirely with old trees, and over that more 

 proudly towers Castle-crag, invested also with wood on its sides, 

 and bearing on its naked top some traces of a fort said to be Uo. 

 man. By the side of this hill, which almost blocks up the way, the 

 valley turns to the left, and contracts its dimensions till there is liar Jly 

 any road but the rocky bed of the river. The wood or the moun- 

 tains increases, and their summits gro* loftier to the eye, and of 

 more fantastic forms j among them appear Eagle's-clitf, Dove's- 

 nest, Whitedale-pike, &c. celebrated names in the aimals of ives- 

 wick. The dale opens about four miles higher till you come to 

 Seawhaite (where lies the way mounting the hills to the nghi that 

 leads to the Wadd-mines) ; all farther access is here barred to pry- 



