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Page 209:-
MALHAM COVE.
Was the aim frustrated by force or guile,
When giants scooped from out the rocky ground
- Tier under tier - this semicirque profound?
(Giants - the same who built in Erin's isle
That causeway with incomparable toil!)
O, had this vast theatric structure wound
With finished sweep into a perfect round,
No mightier work had gained the plausive smile
Of all-beholding Phoebus! But, alas,
Vain earth! - false world! - Foundations must be laid
In Heaven; for 'mid the wreck of IS and WAS,
Things incomplete and purposes betrayed
Make sadder transits o'er truth's mystic glass
Than nobler objects utterly decayed.
WORDSWORTH
Half a mile from the Cove is the village of Malham, and another
mile brings us to
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Gordale Scar
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GORDALE.- In writing of this stupendous and magnificent work of
Nature, to which nothing in Britain is comparable, language must
fail to describe, and imagination cease to conceive. To direct
the curious traveller into the gorge, and there leave him to his
own sensations, is all we can do. The approach is through a rocky
ravine, (strewn with immense fragments, and intersected by one or
two small streams,) which gradually narrows
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-- "Gordale" -- Gordale Scar
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-- Malham Cove
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