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Page 37:-
Force with Wedderlamb, forming a grand object as beheld from
the bed of the river. A stupendous crag rises out of the
river; the glen sinks belnw (sic) to the depth of a hundred
feet, and the water rushes down in four leaps, the last
being the deepest, sending
'From hollow clefts up to the clearer air
A cloud of mist, that, smitten by the sun,
Varies its rainbow hues.'
The neighbourhood is uncommonly grand and beautiful.
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Little Langdale
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Little Langdale is parallel to Great Langdale, from which it
is separated by Lingmire. It is of higher elevation, and is
distinguished by mountain wildness and seclusion, the rugged
hills being clad with heath and furze. The entrance into it
is narrow and crooked, and through a profusion of birch and
hazel, which conceal the river that issues out of the Tarn,
having the Great and Little Carrs as its background. Further
on to the left is Fell Foot, an ancient inn, on the Old Bell
road which led from Kendal to Whitehaven over Hard Knot and
Wry Nose.
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Blea Tarn
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Blea Tarn, the next object, is on the heights between the
Langdales, and is enriched by the Pikes, Bowfell being in
direct prospect,
'A quiet, treeless nook, with two green fields,
A liquid pool that glitter'd in the sun,
And on bare dwelling, one abode, no more!'
At Wall End, you look down into a scene composed of
extraordinary grandeur and sublimity; a circuitous and level
bottom of rich enclosures
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gazetteer links
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-- "Blea Tarn" -- Blea Tarn
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-- "Colwith Force" -- Colwith Force
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-- "Fell Foot" -- Fell Foot
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-- "Old Bell Road" -- Ambleside to Eskdale area
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