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Mr. Gray was so much intimidated with the accounts of Borrowdale,
that he proceeded no farther than Grange. But no such
difficulties as he feared are now to be met with. The road into
Borrowdale is improved since his time, at least as far as is
necessary for any one to proceed to see what is curious. It
serpentizes through the pass above Grange; and though upon the
edge of a precipice that hangs over the river, it is,
nevertheless, safe. This river brings no mixture of mud from the
mountains of naked rock, and runs in a channel of slate and
granite, as clear as crystal. The water of all the lakes in these
parts is clear; but the Derwent only is pelucid. In it the
smallest pebble is seen at a great depth, nearly as in the open
air.
The rocky scenes in Borrowdale are most fantastic, and the
entrance rugged. One
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