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CROMACK-WATER [1],
Soon opens after you leave the village, and pass through an oaken
grove. A fine expanse of water sweeps away to the right under a
rocky promontory, Randon-knot, or Buttermere-hawse. The road then
serpentizes round the rock, and under a rugged, pyramidal, craggy
mountain. From the crest of this rock, the whole extent of the
lake is discovered. On the western side the mountains rise
immediately from the water's edge, bold and abrupt. Just in
front, between Blea-crag and Mell-break, (two spiral hills) the
hoarse resounding noise of a water-fall is heard across the lake,
concealed within the bosom of the cliff, through which it has
forced its way, and when viewed from the foot of the fall, is a
most astonishing phaenomenon.
This lake is beautified with three small isles. One of rock lies
just before you. The
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