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public-house, in Patterdale at the head of 

 Ullswater, where he had called for refresh- 

 ment, on the 18th of April 1805. He wished 

 to have had a guide to direct him over the hills, 

 but as there was a general review that day 

 at Penrith, he could not obtain one. He 

 therefore proceeded on his journey without 

 any other attendant than his spaniel bitch, 

 expecting to be able to find the way by him- 

 self; but in this hope he was deceived, for 

 he never reached Wytheburn. About an 

 hour after he left the public-house, a quantity 

 of hail fell, accompanied with a dense fog, 

 which continued the remainder of the day. 

 No account was heard of him for two months, 

 when a shepherd passing near Red Tarn 

 Crag, not far from Helvellyn, on the 20th of 

 June, was attracted by the howling of a 

 dog. It was Mr. Gough's spaniel watching 

 over the remains of her master. 



u Dark green was that spot mid the brown mountain 



heather, 

 Where the Pilgrim of Nature lay stretched in decay, 



