Thomas West's Guide to the Lakes, 1778 
 
  
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Raw data from Thomas West's Guide to the Lakes are offered 
for further study. All are 
ascii text files, readable by a wide variety of 
software:- 
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| xml text |  
The transcript and editorial notes are presented as a 
well formed xml document. The structure is not declared, 
but is derived from TEI, the Text Encoding 
Initiative. 
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| text+notes |  
The transcript and editorial notes are presented as ascii 
text with tagging to make the relationshiop of various 
parts clear. 
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| text only |  
The transcript is presented as ascii text with a few 
markers for page breaks, etc. 
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| place data |  
Raw data from the Old Cumbria Gazetteer has been downloaded 
in comma delimited form for places that are described 
in Thomas West's Guide to the Lakes, 1778 edition of 1821. 
The data is suitable for loading into 
a flat table, as used by dBase, Access, Oracle and 
other relational table systems. The limitations of 
such systems make it impossible to provide the full data 
from the original MODES database which works on more 
powerful principles. Fields The fields in the table are:- 
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