NORTH OR LAKE LANCASHIRE. 269 
north of the Sands,* is that part of the county which lies on the north- 
west of the Bay of Morecambe, and from which it has become widely 
it by the sea ;” and again, ‘‘ the shore once lay out a great way west a 
into the oc ootan, ”__ Gibson’s Camd. Brit. e tradition of a form 
land extension, watered by the rivers Leven and Crake , is well known 
spray reach of high tides 
Boundaries of Lake Laneashire.—The im maginary line dividing the main 
county from Westmoreland comes out on the shore between Silverdale 
and Arnside (see map), and crossing what is now the estuary of the river 
Kent, strikes northwards up the ce to its rise, or nearly so ; thence 
moor, which towards the north rise into fells, whose culminating 
points are Caw, White Pike, Brown Pike, Walna Scar, The Old Man, 
and Wetherlam, with a varying altitude ‘reaching to 878 yE 
regards the character of the scenery of Lake Lancashire, it is eA in 
the more elevated sweep j hat 
of the grand region shared by the sister Sean but it icedaasen 
Many miles of lake lo oe which is scarcely surpassed by the 
tugged Soha of the mountains: 
e principal water-courses are the rivers Leven and Crake ; the 
former brings to the sea the superfluous waters of Windermere, the 
other those of Coniston. But the smaller streams called becks, — 
ground for the botanist, and these are Numerous. The thre 
lakes, Coniston, Esthwaite, and Windermere, are situated i in siacky 
el valleys, running from north to south ; te aa overflow 
in 
into Westmoreland, crossing the boundary at Bowland Bridge. A 
Considerable tract of ding country is thus enclosed between the Winster 
nel 
* In conjuncti with Cartmel, Furness forms that that part of the Hundred o 
omy f which is a Lonsdale North of the Sands; Passi ae 
of Lan t . 
lent cave a Bae divided into ilonge fw coat povee bern 
county, and contains two places for primaeted 0 
Havas oe Ry and Furness Abbey,” 1842. 
