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  Observations, chiefly Lithological, made in a Five Weeks Tour to the principal Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland

Lithological Observations in The Lakes

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170. Observations, chiefly Lithological, made in a Five Weeks Tour to the principal Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland.
THE state of Europe preventing our author from making a second visit to the Alps, he was led to turn his views to the Apennines of his own country. Passing through Buxton, he agrees, with Faujus de St. Fond, that it is, "a cheerless, dreary tract, and, unlike other mountainous countries, totally devoid of the picturesque." Nor is he at all partial to Manchester; ...
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