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Page 92:-
[in]ward, form the most horrid amphitheatre that ever eye beheld
in the wild forms of convulsed nature. The immediate margin of
the lake is, however, a sweet variegated shore of meadow and
pasture, up to the foot of the rocks. Over a border of hedge-row
trees, Lowdore-house is seen, under Hallow-stone-crag, a sloping
rock, whose back is covered with soft vegetation. Beyond it,
appear the awful craggy rocks, that conceal the pass into
Borrowdale, and at their feet a stripe of verdant meadow, through
which the Derwent serpentizes to the lake in silence.
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along Derwent Water
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The road is along Barrowside, on the margin of the lake, narrow,
yet safe. It soon enters a glade, through which the lake is
sweetly seen by turns. In approaching the ruins of Gowdar-crag,
which hangs towering forward, the mind recoils at the huge
fragments of crags, piled up on both sides, which are seen
through a thicket of rocks and wood. But there is nothing of the
danger remaining that Mr. Gray apprehended here; the road being
carefully kept open. Proceed by the bridge of one arch, over
Park-gill, and another over Barrow-beck. Here Gowdar-crag
presents itself in all its terrible majesty of rock, trimmed with
trees that hang from its numerous fissures. Above this is seen a
towering grey rock, rising ma-
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gazetteer links
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-- "Gowdar Crag" -- Gowder Crag
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-- "Hallow Stone Crag" -- Hallow Stone Crag
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-- Lodore Falls
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-- Keswick to Borrowdale
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-- station, Walla Crag
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