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The road as far as Buttermere has been described (p.84). But
the attention of the traveller has hardly been sufficiently
called to the stormy character of this central district, as
shown by the aspect of the mountains. No where else are they
so scarred with weather marks, or so diversified in
colouring from new rents in the soil. Long sweeps of orange
and grey stones descend to Crummock Water; and above, there
are large hollows, like craters, filled now with deep blue
shadows, and now with tumbling white mists, above which
yellow or purple peaks change their hue with every hour of
the day, or variation of the sky. The bare, hot-looking
débris on the Melbreak side, the chasms in the
rocks, and the sudden swellings of the waters, tell of
turbulence in all seasons. The most tremendous waterspout
remembered in the region of the lakes, descended the ravine
between Grassmoor and Whiteside, in 1760. It swept the whole
side of Grassmoor at midnight, and carried down everything
that was lying loose all through the vale below, and
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