that H. Forest was the gentleman who assisted Robert Walker in his classical studies at Lowes-water.

"To this parish register is prefixed a motto, of which the following verses are part.

"This Essay, which was published several years ago as an Introduction to some Views of the Lakes, by the Rev. Joseph Wilkinson, (an expensive work, and necessarily of limited circulation.) is now, with emendations and additions, attached to these volumes; from a consciousness of its having been written in the same spirit which dictated several of the poems, and from a belief that it will tend to materially illustrate them."