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coaches for Shap, sixteen miles north. That 

 part of the road which lies over Shap Fells 

 presents, even in the height of summer, a 

 dreary appearance. The dark grey rocks 

 which show their heads above the moor, 

 are relieved by no cheerful verdure ; and the 

 heather which lies in patches upon the 

 brown peat moss seems half-withered, and 

 displays more of its dingy stalk than of its 

 green top and purple flowers ; while an 

 occasional pool of dark-colored bog-water, 

 collected in a hollow 'from which peats have 

 been dug, contributes to render the scene 

 still more cheerless. 



About half a mile south of Shap, in a 

 field to the right, may be seen a Druidical 

 circle of large unhewn cobble-stones ; the 

 huge granite pebbles of an antediluvian world, 

 which had been thrown upon those fells, 

 smoothed and rounded by the attrition, 



" When o'er the highest hills the deluge past." 

 A double line of similar stones, leading to the 





