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[moun]tain, that exhibits an immense mass of antediluvian ruins.
After this roads ascends Dunmail-raise, where lie the historical
stones, that perpetuate the name and fall of the last king of
Cumberland, defeated there by the Saxon monarch Edmund, who put
out the eyes of the two sons of his adversary, and for his
confederating with Leolin, king of Wales, first wasted his
kingdom, and then gave it to Malcolm, king of Scots, who held it
in fee of Edmund, A.D. 944, or 945. The stones are a heap, that
have the appearance of a karn, or barrow. The wall that divides
the counties is built over them; which proves their priority of
time in that form.
From Dunmail-raise the road is an easy descent of nine miles to
Keswick, except on Castle-rig, which is somewhat quick. Leaving
the vale of Grasmere behind, you soon come in sight of
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LEATHES-WATER,
Called also WYTHBURN or THIRLEMERE. It begins at the foot of
Helvellyn, and skirts its base for the space of four miles,
encreased by a variety of pastoral torrents, that pour their
silvery streams down the mountains' sides, and then, warbling,
join the lake. The range of mountains, on the right, are tre-
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