VI PREFACE 



To many friends all over the county I tender my thanks for their 

 help and kindly suggestions, and more especially to Mr. A. B. Taylor, 

 Mr. Francis Nicholson, and the Revd. E. S. Robertson, of Winder- 

 mere, the last of whom has read all the proofs, to Mr. Geo. Browne of 

 Troutbeck, Mr. Geo. Gatey and Mr. Thos. Bell of Ambleside, the latter 

 for several of the illustrations, and Mr. W. B. Brunskill of Windermere 

 for many of the photographs taken speciaUy for the work, the Rev. 

 T. W. Anderson of Temple Sowerby, who lent me the copies of the 

 1000 year leases belonging to that Parish, Prof. Wallace of Edinburgh 

 University for the diagram of the thorax of the Herdwick, Prof. 

 J. E. Marr and the Cambridge University Press for the Physical and 

 Geological Maps, to Mr. Arthur Tucker, R.B.A., for his drawing of the 

 old Black Swan Inn in Ravenstonedale, and to my wife for her ever 

 constant assistance. 



To Mr. Ernest Axon of Manchester I am especially indebted for 

 the trouble he has taken in seeing the work through the press. 



Frank W. Garnett. 

 Dalegarth, 



Windermere. 



Oct., 1912. 



