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boat and row down Crummock Lake about a mile; on landing, a
rugged path brings you to it.
'It springs at once, with sudden leap,
Down from the immeasurable steep,
From rock to rock, with shivering force rebounding,
The mighty cataract rushes.'
This is the deepest fall, the water being hurled downwards
in one clear leap of one hundred and fifty-six feet, next,
in another forty-four feet. The chasm into which the waters
sink, is from twelve to twenty feet in width, and is between
two walls of sienite, beautifully covered with trees, which
have fixed their roots in the interstices, whilst the sides
are clad with a profusion of plants. The coolness and
dampness are very great, and will soon warn the tourist from
this stupendous scene.
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CRUMMOCK LAKE
Is three miles in length, three quarters of a mile in
breadth, and twenty-two fathoms in depth. This lake abounds
in trout and char, and receives its main supply of water
from Buttermere, from which it is parted by low flat
meadows, that are little more than half a mile in breadth.
Melbreak rises abruptly on the west side; Rannerdale Knott
forms a bold promontory projecting from Buttermere Hawse,
which advances up to Grasmire and Whiteside, that close it
on the east. Its waters flow out by the Cocker under a
pretty bridge. It has three small islands, one a rock, the
other covered
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