Clarke's Survey of the Lakes, 1787

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	introduction to comments
	in book 2
	Crosthwaite's Marginal Notes in Clarke 1787 book 3
	p.92 para.2		I could now wish ...     I suppose Truth goes the furthest, but not so high as this Author by 110 Yards, with respect to Skiddow! Helveylin too seems Magnified not a little!
	p.96 para.2		This Lake contains ...     Here again the Author has gone beyond the truth by some Hundreds of Acres: and to correct one half of His Errors would almost be an endless Task.
	p.96 para.4.		Surely never was there ...     When ever we meet with a Quotation from my sublime author, we may Expect Dirt thrown at Him in the next paragraph whether He be alive or dead!
	p.97 para.4		We now approach Skiddow ...     no Human Eye ever saw Bassenthwaite Halls from Dike-nook; there being high Land betwixt the two places.
	p.97 para.5		A little below this ...     The author has made this Promentory five times as Broad as it ought to be; & there is no such dirty name as Scarn House in Bassenthwaite
	p.98 para.1		Some, when speaking ...     O' for Shame Mr, Author! neither the present Generation, nor their forefathers before them, ever knew Cumbrian Sheep keep the weatherside of a mountain in a Storm when they could get to Leeward
	p.98 para.2		If a calm snow fall ...     Harrows are too heavy, & cumbersome to carry upon the mountains
	p.98 para.4		We now return ...     Mr, West was right enough
	p.98 footnote		† Herdwick sheep ...     nor any Northern Clime we know of
	p.99 foot		Our Author seems to have been hardened; & blind to future good; for after having meanly attempted to blast the fame of all the Divine Philosophers who have wrote on the Lakes before Him; & that of this Countrymen; His great work is unsaleable; & Himself cast into Carlisle Jail by his Engravor where He has continued Several Months; & it is said: likely to continue. - He has Spared neither Age nor Sex round the Lakes, & Represented the People, Rocks, Thunder Storms, &c. in such a Dreadful light, that, had this monstrous production been generally Red, and believed; we might have bidden farewell to the Flowers of the Three Kingdoms; as few would have ventured Their Lives amongst us in Future!!!
	in book 4

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