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Page 139:-
[moun]tains. Most of these remain, and will remain. I only
regret that the ancient cottage, with its accompaniments, is
superseded by the modern house with its five windows in
front. I should have preferred at Mardale Hill the ancient
cottage with its antiquated windows, its lowly roof fringed
with moss, and its chimneys smoking through the trees, as
the abode of quiet and the home of solitude.' The change
here so eloquently lamented has, unfortunately, too often
been the case in numerous other instances, which the
stranger will have been obliged to notice.
The traveller may, by several ways, each exhibiting scenes
worthy of admiration, pass out of this vale. One mountain
path leads up Riggendale, over High Street, and down
Troutbeck Hundreds, to Ambleside or Low Wood Inn,
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Kentmere
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KENTMERE,
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Nan Bield Pass
Kentmere Hall
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Or he may follow the course of the stream flowing out of
Small Water, over the pass of Nanbield, then down a steep
descent into Kentmere, a narrow vale, watered by the Kent,
which expands into a tarn one mile long, abounding with
trout, perch, and wild ducks, and margined by swampy
grounds. The houses are scattered throughout the dale. At
Kentmere Hall, an ancient tower, that unwearied apostle of
the north, and sincere confessor of the gospel, Bernard
Gilpin, some time rector of Houghton-le-Spring, in Durham,
was born. Near the
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-- "Kentmere Hall" -- Kentmere Hall
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-- "Kentmere" -- Kentmere
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-- Mardale
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