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people, there are two fish which cannot die ; — the 

 same fish that used to wait on the pleasure of the 

 good Lord Clifford when, in his shepherd-days_, he 

 learned mathematics from the stars upon the moun^ 

 tain. The traveller can return either by the way 

 he came, or by Knott Crag, down upon Threlkeld ; 

 or, by following the course of the Glenderaterra, 

 along the skirts of Saddleback and Skiddaw, — 

 coming out upon the Keswick road about a mile 

 from Threlkeld. This last mode of descent is con- 

 sidered by far the most interesting. 



Whenever he passes that bit of road to Keswick, 

 he will be more and more struck with the advan- 

 tages of the situation of the mansion on Greta 

 Bank, with its airy position, its walks through the 

 woods, with the Greta dashing below; and afar, 

 the iminterrupted view of the whole of Derwent 

 Water basin and surrounding mountains. The 

 tenth commandment is, we imagine^ oftener broken 

 there than in most places. 



