Clarke's Survey of the Lakes, 1787

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	Crosthwaite's Marginal Notes in Clarke 1787 book 1
	p.23 foot		regarding the topograph plate     Cheviot Hills lie near the East side of Northumberland; yet our Author makes them appear 15 degrees to the Westward of Carlisle, when observing from the Penrith Beacon!!! - as may be seen in this Plate to the left
	p.26 para.2		Here fire a gun ...     Not even Handel Himself could have discovered all this!
	p.30 para.1		They likewise procured ...     If the foxes do thus conceal themselves, they are better at self Preservation, than this author at Book making.
	p.30 footnote		† Some of these ...     Dreadful Rocks Those! yet it is a Queary whether any one will measure 100 yards Perpendicular!
	p.39 para.3		Before we quit ...     The Authors Map and Scale makes this Lake only 7 miles long & He has over done it in Area, by several hundred acres.
	p.41 para.8		At one of these huntings ...     And dreadful was the Fall had He not been very Tough He had fell to rise no more in the hunting Line.
	in book 2

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