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vol.1 p.190
As we approached the head of the lake, we were desired to
turn round, and take a view of Castellet, that rocky hill,
which had appeared so enormous, as we stood under it. It had
now shrunk into nothing in the midst of that scene of
greatness, which surrounded it. I mention the circumstance,
as in these wild countries, comparison is the only scale
used in the mensuration of mountains: at least it was the
only scale, to which we were ever referred. In countries
graced by a single mountain, the inhabitants may be
very accurate in their investigation of it's height. The
altitude and circumference of the Wrekin, I have no
doubt, are accurately known in Shropshire: but in a country
like this, where chain is linked to chain, exactness would
be endless.
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