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Wordsworth 1835
synopsis

preliminary pages
  frontispiece
  map
  title page
  contents
  preface
  guide
  The Lakes from Yorkshire
  The Lakes from Lancashire
  The Lakes from the North
  Windermere
  Ambleside area
  Coniston
  Ambleside to Keswick
  Rydal
  Grasmere
  Vale of Keswick
  Borrowdale
  Buttermere
  Crummock Water
  Loweswater
  Wasdale
  Ullswater

Lakes scenery
  Nature
  geomorphology
  aerial view
  spokes of a wheel
  mountains
  valleys
  lakes
  islands
  tarns
  boundaries
  woods
  trees
  climate
  rain
  night scene

inhabitants
  Britons
  Romans
  Saxons
  Danes
  Druids
  Normans
  land tenure
  border service
  buildings
  enclosures
  buildings
  dwellings
  roads
  bridges
  chapels
  churches
  schools
  defensive buildings
  rural community

change
  taste
  development
  woods
  buildings
  plantations
  larch trees
  conservation
  incomers

miscellany
  season for visiting
  direction of approach
  ascents
  time of day
  light
  comparisons
  Alps
  Appenines

excursions
  Scafell Pike
  Helvellyn
  Ullswater
  Kirkstone Pass

appendices
  road distances
  itineraries