The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . iver finallyto the Thames; but though the Duddon widens considerably at Ulpha, it loses its beauty before itits career. DEllWEXTWATER EUOM SCAFELL. finishes Following the coast around Haverigg Point, whence the sand of the coastbecomes only the decent margin which makes the sliore pleasant, we pause at thethree-branched estuary of the , the creeks, right, left, and middle, being formedby the Esk, the Mite, and the Irt. This is all majestic country. Our CumberlandEsk hails from Scafell, w
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . iver finallyto the Thames; but though the Duddon widens considerably at Ulpha, it loses its beauty before itits career. DEllWEXTWATER EUOM SCAFELL. finishes Following the coast around Haverigg Point, whence the sand of the coastbecomes only the decent margin which makes the sliore pleasant, we pause at thethree-branched estuary of the , the creeks, right, left, and middle, being formedby the Esk, the Mite, and the Irt. This is all majestic country. Our CumberlandEsk hails from Scafell, whose pike of 3,210 feet is the highest ground in Eskdale may also be spoken of in the superlative degree for its marked 296 RIVERS OF GREAT BIUTAIN. [The Esk. irrandcur. Xo mean skill in mountaineering is requii-ed to reach Wastdale, Langdale,and Borrowdale from the different paths. The Esk Falls are formed by the junctionof becks from l^iwfcll and Scafell. The line cataract, Cam Spout, descends fromMickledore ; and llardknutt. which is one of the lesser hei<!:hts, has a Roman ruin. THE (illKEU ILOWIXG FKOM CIIUMMOCK WATER {p. 300). Spoken of as a castle. Tliere are, moi-eover, Baker Force and Stanlev (lill amongstthe waterfalls. Little need be said about the second-nanu>(l liver, tlie ^Wtr. Ixcejitthat it passes the fell, the railway station, and the castle, bearing eadi tlic naincof ^funcaster. The river Ii;r is tlie outlet of Wastwater, a gloomy lake three and a lialf mileslong and half a mile broad, and of immense depth. It is a tradition in Lake-land tluit this jnece of water is never frozen, but tins is dearly an error, for tliereis a distinct record by the learned brotlier of Sir Humphry Davy that it waspartly c<jvcred with ice in the great frost of ). The desolate crags around tlielake arc answerable for nnich of its severe character, and perhaps it was on thisaccount that the Lakers used to it. AVaugh, the Lancashire poet, encountered
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