Clarke's Survey of the Lakes, 1787
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introduction to comments | ||
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in book 3 | ||
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Crosthwaite's Marginal Notes in Clarke 1787 book 4 |
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| p.116 para.1 |
From hence to the bridge ...
This great & terrible Book is wrong with respect to the Boundry of St. Johns, & not Mr, West. |
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| p.116 footnote |
* Upon the highest ...
This remark seems to hint our Author never reached the top of Skiddow, there being no little round hill, but two remarkable large Piles of Stones. |
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| p.117 para.5 |
Thyrillmere belongs to ...
Pearch Eels &c. |
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| p.117 para.6 |
Passing Swirl's Gate ...
This is indeed a strange story because neither w[ ] nor our Forefathers ever heard of this drounding match before, or the helpmate which Conducted the said Clark to the Fatal Lea[p] |
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| p.118 para.1 |
We now reach Wytheburn ...
A Stallion only! |
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| p.124 para.4 |
At one of those rushbearings ...
This Paragraph is only fit to be seen by men of the same cast with our Author!!! |
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| p.126 |
regarding plate 9
In the next Plate may be seen Ambleside bearing S1/4E from Clarks Leap; which is out of the course about 45 degrees; & 20 other things widely out of Proportion in the same Plate. |
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