|
|
|
|
|
|
|
title page |
|
|
|
|
|
previous page
next page |
|
|
|
Page 46:-
|
Sour Milk Gill
|
|
SOUR-MILK GILL is a name applied to some mountain torrents, on
account of their frothy whiteness resembling Butter-milk from the
churn. We have Sour-milk Gill near Buttermere, Sour-milk Gill in
Grasmere, and Sour-milk Gill near the Black-lead Mine in
Borrowdale.
The above enumerated are some of the most noted of the falls: but
tracing the mountain streams into their deep recesses, they
present an inexhaustible variety: smaller indeed, but frequently
of very interesting features.
|
mountains
|
|
THE MOUNTAINS
|
views
|
|
Of the Lake district are of sufficient elevation to command
extensive prospects over the surrounding country; yet not so high
as to create any disagreeable sensations in climbing their
slopes, or traversing their ridges, in favourable weather.
|
soils
|
|
Their magnitude imparts a sublimity to the scenery, without
overcharging the picture with any disproportionate objects. The
rocks and ravines on their sides convey some knowledge of the
materials whereof they are composed; and, by their variety of
soil and elevation of surface, they are adapted to the production
of different kinds of vegetables.
In the summer season the bottoms of the glens
|
|
|
|
gazetteer links
|
|
-- Sour Milk Gill
|
|
-- Sour Milk Gill
|
|
-- "Sourmilk Gill" -- Sour Milk Gill
|
|
|
|
|
|
next page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lakes Guides menu.
|