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Transcription of James Clarke's Survey of the Lakes, 1787
Transcription of James Clarke's Survey of the Lakes of
Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, published at
Penrith, Cumberland, 1787. The main copy used was in the
Armitt Library, item A6616, which is a second edition. The
maps scanned were in several collections.
source type: Clarke 1787
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title page |
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Transcription
The transcript of the body text is made into records page
by page, ignoring the problems that a section or sentence
might be split across page breaks. Each page will be
presented as a separate web page.
Somewhen, the text, at present in MODES for Windows
records, will migrate to MODES xml. At this change a
datastructure based on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
will be used, though that methodology is biased towards
academic study of 'Literature' rather than everyday text.
TEI would mark up the whole text as one document, the
particular arrangement into pages for an edition treated as
a subsidiary feature. I need to have smaller units as
records, which will become html pages. The book here is
being treated as an object in its own right, rather than a
text which just happens to be in a book, each page is a part
object.
Some of the exact typesetting has been ignored, though
italics and some special characters are indicated using html
markup. Hyphenation across lines has been removed, judging
as well as I am able to retain the hyphen where it likely
belongs, comparing with the same word elsewhere in the text
if possible. A word split across pages is left that way, but
the beginning part of the word is added as inferred data to
its continuation on the following page.
Where possible Greek and other scripts have been
represented by Unicode characters, but this does not seem
possible for some of the Anglo Saxon letters.
Peculiarities of spelling and grammar are preserved; they
might be confirmed by '(sic)', but not very often: we have
typed and have proof read as accurately as we can.
Errata from the end of the book have been added to their
relevant page as a footnote.
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Chapters and Sections
An attempt was made to use the chapter contents lists,
given at the opening of each book and as chapter headings,
to provide the marginal notes that help structure the book
into sections. This fails: it is not always possible, nor
sensible, so I have written my own marginals, though trying
to include James Clarke's as much as they make sense.
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Text Indexing
Keywords for indexing the text have been recorded, as
well as I am able: mostly using today's placenames rather
than the text's version; recognising unnamed places if
possible; using locality type terms if nothing else is
possible, objects and topics are indexed only if useful;
there is likely a bias towards an interest in Cumbria. Thus,
I have tried to interpret and understand the text to make
the indexing helpful and comprehensible in today's world; a
basic rule is 'would you want this page if you were
searching with this keyword?' The placename spellings of the
text are put into the Old Cumbria Gazetteer, where all sorts
of spellings are indexed. Botanical names are indexed with
spellings standardised to today's usual pattern, but no
attempt has been made to check synonymy and regularise the
binomial to a modern term.
Gazetteer Extracts
Chunks of text relevant to each place are extracted and
gathered together, and loaded into the record for the place
in a gazetteer. This is much easier to use for a place than
searching through pages in the guide book; you can go to the
original text and read it all in context if you wish. The
gazetteer is arranged using standard placename spellings,
today's version of the placename, but will be indexable on
all sorts of spellings, and by other place data. The
gazetteer also holds extracts from other sources, and map
square images.
Not all keywords allocated to the text will prompt a
gazetteer entry. Some places in the text will be
unidentifiable some keywords are for other topics than
places, char, botanical species, rocks, etc.
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Is it True?
Doubt has been expressed at times about the
trustworthyness of James Clarke as a reporter of facts.
Perhaps he happily includes, even embroiders, what has been
heard over a good dinner. I am making no judgements; the
purpose here is to make his text accessible.
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Maps and Plates
Maps and plates have been scanned from a miscellany of
sources. Further notes:-
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title page |
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dedication |
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contents |
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preface |
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book 1 |
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book 2 |
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book 3 |
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book 4 |
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book 5 |
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appendix |
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appendix |
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comments |
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