The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . pictures which have many !i poet ; and to arrive at the iirst we nnist leavefr»r a moment the .sands of .Morecandte Hay and take a new de]iai-1ure away b(> where tlie river Hotmav (or Iotha) is formed by a congn^gation ofnmrmuring becks or ^ills. One of the bcdcrs (d the bothay comes Irom the tiny( Vxlale Tarn and the larger Kasedalc Tarn, well known to tourists from the rattlin;:-htth- waterfall. Sourmilk Force. (odalc lies prclly lil-li in the world, lising to an
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . pictures which have many !i poet ; and to arrive at the iirst we nnist leavefr»r a moment the .sands of .Morecandte Hay and take a new de]iai-1ure away b(> where tlie river Hotmav (or Iotha) is formed by a congn^gation ofnmrmuring becks or ^ills. One of the bcdcrs (d the bothay comes Irom the tiny( Vxlale Tarn and the larger Kasedalc Tarn, well known to tourists from the rattlin;:-htth- waterfall. Sourmilk Force. (odalc lies prclly lil-li in the world, lising to analtitude over i,()(M» bct. Faseihdc is a basin somewhat down bill, and isin these days nmch better known than when Wordsworth strolled its out- TheRothav.] GRASMEUE village and WnBDsWORTH. 289 poiuiug (Stream, and confessed to having composed tliousands of verses in tlie solitude of the vale. The conspicuous headland of Helm Crag is an essential part of the scenery, and it is climbed for the sake of the view over Grasmere,Windermere, Esthwaite Tarn, Helvellvn, and rxXEKDALE (^j. It may be remarked that we are now in the region of tarns and pikes, and thederivation of the former word, if not strictly correct, is not unpoetical, for it is saidto mean a tear. This imaginative investment reminds us of Wordsworthsdeclaration that the stream which traverses Easedale is now and again as wild andbeautiful as a brook may be. The river Rothay, however, does not rely entirelyupon this immortalised brook, but it can fairlv reckon upon what can be S23ared fromthe tarns when the other gills fail in their shrunken currents. In the valley is thevillage of Grasmere, sacred to Wordsworths cottage; and the churcli, containing amedallion of the author who sang its naked rafters intricately crossed, andwhose grave and that of members of his family, with Hartley Coleridge lying hardby, and a memorial-stone to Clough, attract renewed streams of pilgrims. Thecot
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