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Excursion to Skiddaw

This transcription is of An Account of an Excursion to the Top of Skiddaw, included in Otley's Concise Description of the English Lakes, 1823, 3rd edn 1827. The copy used in the Armitt Library, item AMATL:A1174.
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AN ACCOUNT OF AN EXCURSION TO THE TOP OF SKIDDAW.
IN A LETTER FROM A FRIEND.
WE rose at four in the morning, in order to ascend to the summit of Skiddaw, a distance of nearly six miles. The top of the mountain was veiled from our view by heavy clouds: but we were not to be intimidated by this circumstance; the barometer was rising, and we were in hopes of their clearing off; besides it was the only day we could spare for the purpose. We were advised to take ponies, but that we declined - naturalists should never follow a beaten track, and we were determined to be at liberty to explore on the right hand and on the left, as fancy might direct us.
Taking the Penrith road for half a mile, we crossed a bridge over the Greta, and turning at an acute angle to the left, we slanted by a pleasant occupation road along the side of Latrigg - a hill sometimes designated by the whimsical cognomen of 'Skiddaw's cub' - which we were told was about one third of the height of the parent mountain; but, judging by the eye at setting out, we
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