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but not without hazard to the assailant, who is let down from the
summit of this dreadful rock, by a rope of twenty fathoms, or
more, and who is obliged to defend himself from the attacks of
the parent bird during his descent. The devastation made on the
fold in the breeding season, by one eyrie, is computed at a lamb
a day, besides the carnage made on the ferae natura. Glaramara is
a mountain of perpendicular rock, immense in height and much
broken. It appears on the western canton, and outline of the
picture. Bull-crag and Serjeant-crag are in the centre, and their
ruggid (sic) sides concealed with hanging woods.
The road continues good to Rosthwaite, the first village in this
romantic region, where it divides. That on the right leads to the
wad-mines, and to Ravenglass; that on the left, to Hawkshead.
Amidst these tremendous scenes of rocks and mountains, there is a
peculiar circumstance, of consolation to the traveller, that
distinguishes this from other mountainous tracts, where the hills
are divided by bogs and mosses often difficult to pass, which is,
that the mosses here, are on
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