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Page iv:-
serving as large buttresses only. In the presentation of
endlessly-diversified forms, these Mountains yield to none,
however individually inferior they may be, owing to their
being seldom seen in a detached point of view; although, on
the other hand, they have thus the advantage of forming
combinations at once grand and sublime, towering above each
other, or rising in ridges, like the mighty billows of the
ocean.
Their general covering is a rich green turf, affording
excellent pasturage to large flocks of sheep. The brown of
the dying fern, and the purple hue of the heather, add to
the variety no less than the beauty of the tints. On some,
rocks predominate; others have their fronts torn and
ploughed up by bursts and speats of rain, exposing and
laying bare the soil.
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valleys
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The Valleys which lie between these masses, are not formed
like those of Wales, by the sloping sides of the mountains
meeting, so as to leave but little room for any thing but a
terrace road and rugged bed of a river; but they wind
amongst the hills with intricate and abrupt turnings, and in
the level bottoms,
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gazetteer links
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-- "Blackcomb" -- Black Combe
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-- "Fairfield" -- Fairfield
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-- "Grasmoor" -- Grasmoor
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-- "Gable" -- Great Gable
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-- "Grisdale Pike" -- Grisedale Pike
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-- "Helvellyn" -- Helvellyn
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-- "Langdale Pikes" -- Langdale Pikes
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-- "Coniston Old Man" -- Old Man of Coniston, The
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-- "Red Pike" -- Red Pike
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-- "Blencathra" -- Saddleback
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-- "Scafell" -- Sca Fell
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-- "Skiddaw" -- Skiddaw
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