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belongs) made an excellent foot road on the banks of the
Gill, which road three times changes sides by three bridges
crossing the Gill; and this, with other improvements, are
highly creditable to the late proprietor. - The chasm is
awfully sublime, the rocks rising almost perpendicular over
their bases, from the grisly sides of which, impend trees in
the richest wildness. - The mountains of Eskdale and
Wastdale are fine distances, as seen out of the chasm on
returning to the Hall; Scho-fell is the principal.
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Goldrill Crag
River Duddon
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No. 49.
GOLD-RILL CRAG, ON THE RIVER DUDDON.
The river Duddon divides Lancashire and Cumberland, from the
county stones on Wrynose, to its junction with the Irish
sea; consequently, the scene before us is in both counties.
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This view is down the river; the left hand rock is in
Lancashire, and Goldrill Crag, which is on the right, is in
Cumberland.
The Lancashire side of this river, from Broughton to Cockley
Beck Bridge, which bridge is on the road from Ambleside to
Wastdale, is chiefly the township of Seathwaite, a district
deeply but charmingly entrenched among the mountains:
Cockley Beck Bridge is four miles above Seathwaite chapel,
and Goldrill Crag is half way between them.
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Vale of Langdale
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No. 50.
VALE OF LANGDALE, FROM BAYS BROWN.
Bays Brown is a farm house, and the capital of a little
manor, of which Mr. Atkinson is the lord; it lies in
Langdale, on the opposite side of the valley to the chapel.
- Pavey Ark is
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