THE 



ENGLISH LAKE DISTRICT 

 FISHERIES 



CHAPTER I 

 INTRODUCTORY 



THE English Lake District roughly comprises 

 that portion of north-western England embraced 

 by Westmorland, Cumberland and the Furness 

 district of Lancashire. It is bordered on the west 

 by the Irish Sea ; Morecambe Bay and the Solway 

 are its confines on the north and south ; and the 

 valleys of the Eden and the Lune interpose a 

 trench between its mountain border on the east 

 and the Pennine Range. 



The above is a comprehensive definition of 

 the district. But it has been pointed out, 1 and 

 with truth, that from a point midway between 

 Stake Pass and Dunmail Raise (lying on the 

 western slope of High Raise) a circle of 15 miles' 

 radius just touches the outlet of Bassenthwaite 

 on the north-north-west, of Windermere on the 

 south-south-east, and includes every lake and 



1 On the Bathymetrical Survey of the English Lakes, 

 by Hugh Robert Mill. 



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