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Print, aquatint, Straits of Borrowdale, by William
Gilpin, 1772-74, published by T Cadell and W Davies, Strand,
London, 1808.
Vol.1 opposite p.201 in Observations on Several Parts of
England, Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland
Westmoreland, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, 3rd
edn 1808.
The list of plates has:-
'XIV. / An illustration of that sort of country, which
composes the narrower parts of the straits of Borrodale.
They consist of rocky, or craggy mountains on each side;
with a stream, or, in some parts (where the stream may be
hid) a road, in the middle. But it is difficult to give any
idea of these tremendous scenes, in so small a compass, as
they are here exhibited: for, as their terror consists
greatly in their immensity, it is not easy to persuade the
eye to conceive highly of their grandeur from these
diminutive representations.- Mr. Farrington has given us, on
a larger scale, a fine portrait, and I think, a very exact
one, of the entrance into these straits at the village of
Grange. / Page 201.'
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