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with grass; but in what manner formed he could not possibly tell, though they were, as he thought, manifestly works of nature; and that part of its beach consists of fine sand. Down the gill to Heartshope; a lovely gill, where there are as fine baths and shoots of water from the rock, or rather of rock which throw off the water, as can any where be seen. At Heartshope, some of the finest cottages in this country, with their old balconies, perfect posadas in appearance. Danvers better when we returned; indeed, quite recovered. We drank tea in Luff's garden; a fine yew which he found lying on the ground, where it had remained twelvemonths, he hoisted up, and it recovered, and is now flourishing. Clarkson and Tilbrook arrived after tea.

July 21st. An old man above eighty was our guide up Helvellin; his hands shook, his voice faltered, but his feet were firm, and he walked up better than I could follow him. Up Glenriddel, to Capel Cove Tarn, which lies under Catchedicam; we ascended to the right of the Tarn, a steep ascent, but the easiest, then walked along the summit, and then ascended the ridge of another eminence, which seemed a fearful road till we got at it, when it was perfectly safe. Got up Helvellin, the point so called, then upon Brown Cove Head. Catchedicam, which is next in order, we left to the left, Red Tarn below, and Stridingedge on its right, a fearful place. We looked down on the spot were the bones of poor Gough' were found. Saw a little Tarn above the upper end of Thirlmere. On, till Grisdale Tarn appears below us, the largest of all on Helvellin; a very slippery descent to it, and here we left our guide, he going down Gris

dale home, we up beside the Tarn, and over the hawse to Grasmere.

I noticed a gate of wise construction; for want of hinges, an upright pole passed through a hole in a projecting stone at top,it was at Heartshope,—and it fastened by running a wooden spiggot into a hole in a rock, or great stone.

Saturday 22nd. Through Langdale, and over the Stake. Slate quarry. The drippings of the rock have formed a black and sunless pool. Long-dale it is indeed! on the summit we lost the path, and did not recover it till we were nearly down. They lay ropes under the hay, and bear it off in that manner; or on a horse, as much as he can bear, and the ropes hold.

Saturday, August 19th. WALKED home from Lowther; breakfast with Thomas Wilkinson. He showed me Yanwith Hall. Its smaller tower inclined so far from the perpendicular, that it must soon have fallen. The present Lord Lonsdale was very desirous of preserving it; a huge machine for pulling it back from its inclination was made ready, and the side opposite was undermined. The workmen now began to be alarmed, and were afraid to use the powers which had been prepared, when somebody cried out that the wall was moving, though with a motion almost imperceptible; it was soon, however, ascertained that this was the case, and in the course of the night it settled completely upright, in such a manner that it may now last for ages.

Crossed the Emont by a foot-bridge, from whence there is a sweet view of Yaworth. We took shelter from the rain with one Dawson, who owns that little white very neat house with the clipt yew tree before it,

1 The history of his loss the reader will find two miles on this side Penrith. He supin WORDSWORTH'S Fidelity

"A barking sound the Shepherd hears, A cry as of a Dog or Fox," &c. And in those other well-known lines"We climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn," &c. J. W. W.

plies his house with water from a rising ground about 100 yards off. A plumber, thirty years since, laid him a small leaden

The same as hals, i. e. a neck. A very common name in Cumberland and Westmoreland. J. W. W.

pipe for five groats a yard, exclusive of soldering, which cost about sixteen shillings more, and this has lasted excellently well. The water is conveyed into a large stone cistern, or small tank, in the dairy,-fine, soft, beautiful water, and from there it flows through an old gun-barrel pipe into a trough of stone, likewise on the outside, for out of door purposes; close to the inner cistern, is a sink, so that the dairy is thus kept always

cool and clean. What is remarkable, (besides this excellent contrivance, which was projected by the owner himself, a plain Cumberland peasant), is, that this never-failing stream seems to indicate changes of weather, for before all changes, either for fine weather or rain, instead of flowing freely, it comes drop by drop.

BLACK lead has been found in the Colonel's Island, and it had been buried there some thirty or forty years ago, when a regular trade in stealing it was carried on.

waters. We staid half an hour listening to it. The children were very much impressed. It was the more extraordinary, as there had been no thaw, and the night had been severe. It was between eight and nine o'clock.

AT Nottingham, the streets are paved with Bōdern stones, which the higher classes Bolder. A boy who takes up a pronounce large stone says, I'll throw a Bōder at you.

ST. JOHN's Church. Joseph Dixon's book of psalm tunes had a picture on it of Windsor Castle, with Patent Windsor Soap written below.

JOSEPH GLOVER was born at Watenlath, and from the age of eight till twelve, when he left it, used every day to go to the church in Borrowdale to school, three miles distant over the mountain, in all weather. Harrison, who had then the living and the school, was a very old man. Glover was the only boy from Watenlath, and could have had no

In one place, by the Emont, there is the schooling unless he went there. The master black currant growing wild.

A WOMAN, at the foot of Crossfels, said, when I enquired the road for some distance forward, ""Twould be mystical for me to tell you the way," meaning that it was too intricate for me to comprehend her.

1st Feb. 1814. I HEARD the ice thunders1 this morning. Edith and Herbert compared it to the howling of wild beasts. It

was neither like thunder nor the sound of

the wind, but a long, moaning, melancholy sound, rising and dying away, beyond measure mournful; and to any one crossing the ice, inexpressibly awful and appalling. Every now and then came a crash, and a splash of

WORDSWORTH alludes to the same sound in the Prelude

"From under Esthwaite's splitting fields of ice
The pent up air, struggling to free itself,
Gave out to meadow-grounds and hills a loud
Protracted yelling, like the noise of wolves
Howling in troops along the Bothnic main."
B. i. p. 25.-J. W. W.

used to let him go away earlier than the rest of the boys. The house in which he was born is now fallen entirely to ruins. I make this memorial of Glover with some interest. The man is a carpenter and joiner here in Keswick, and I should say, very much out of his proper place, if such a man could be out of place any where. But a more ingenious or a more inquiring man I have seldom seen, nor one more ready and alert upon all occasions with his best services; nor with whom, had his situation in life permitted, I should have been upon more familiar terms.

In the reign of King John, Richard Gilpin "was enfeoffed in the lordship of Kentmere Hall, by the Baron of Kendal, for his singular deserts both in peace and war. This is that R. G. who slew the wild boar that, raging in the mountains adjoining, as sometimes did that of Erimanthus, had much endammaged the country people; whence it is that the Gilpins in their coat arms, give the boar."-Life of BERNARd G.

Feb. 10, 1819. THIS morning a cockroach was found in the mouse-trap, where it had picked the bones of the tail, and eaten out both the eyes of a mouse, which had been taken in the night. This reminds me of what happened in the West Indies, in the ship with my brother. A boy who slept on deck barefooted, had the callus eaten off both his heels by the cockroaches, so that for some time he was not able to walk.

March 21,1819. A RAT-CATCHER tells me

that the white rat from Greenland has found

its way into this country. He caught twelve at Edinburgh, (I think). They are larger than the Norway rat,-measuring eighteen inches from the nose to the extremity of the tail, but they are not so fierce.

A.D. 1819. MANY hundred sycamore seeds are now shooting up upon the green before the parlour window, the winter having been so uncommonly mild that it has killed nothing. I never before remember to have seen any of these seeds growing there, though they must have been scattered there equally every autumn. If the place were deserted here, there would be a selfsown grove. And how many such must be produced in a winter like this.

A. D. 1815. By Mr. Leathes's I heard a stuttering cuckoo,-whose note was cuccuckoo-cuccuckoo; after three or four of which he brought out the word rightly.1

A MAN who worked for us was nettleproof. He would apply them to his face, and put them into his bosom, without feeling the sting.

MISS GRISDALE knows a single woman in this country who succeeded unexpectedly to £70,000. The only change she made in her mode of life was, to use lump sugar in her tea, and to drink it out of a china cup instead of a crockery one. But she was

'The old child's rhyme says

"In the month of June, He alters his tune," and it is quite true.-J. W. W.

always much disturbed and provoked at paying the income tax.

WHEN Wordsworth was a boy, a saying was remembered among the people, that time was when a squirrel could have gone from Crow Park to Wytheburn Chapel, without touching the ground.”

"WHILST the villains of Low Furness were employed in all the useful arts of agriculture, the woodlanders of High Furness were charged with the care of the flocks and herds, which pastured the verdant side of the fells, to guard them from the wolves which lurked in the thickets below; and in winter to browse them with the tender sprouts and sprigs of the hollies and ash. This custom has never been discontinued in High Furness, and the holly trees are carefully preserved for that purpose, where all other wood is cleared off; and large tracts of common pasture are so covered with these trees as to have the appearance of a forest of hollies. At the shepherd's call the flock surround the holly bush, and receive the croppings at his hand, which they greedily nibble up, and bleat for more. A stranger unacquainted with this practice would imagine the holly bush to have been sacred among the fellanders of Furness. The mutton so fed has a remarkable fine

flavour."-WEST's Antiquities of Furness, p. xlv.

66

A.D. 1774.

"IN former times, when salt was procured from sea sand, by pouring water on it, and then boiling down the water to a salt, grants of sand from the lord of the manor were common on the sea coast."-Ibid. p. 191.

"THE place near Ulverston where Martin Swart encamped, when he landed with Mac Lambert, Simnel, and the Flemish troops, is called Swartmoor to this day. There is a tradition that Sir Thomas Broughton did

2 WORDSWORTH, I think, has mentioned the fact in his Poems, and SOUTHEY in his Colloquies.-J. W. W.

be to have printed delineations of the animals on which the respective marks might be laid down, and to which the printed de

not fall in the battle as is recorded, but that he escaped, lived many years among his tenants in Witherslack, in Westmoreland, and was interred in the chapel there."―scription preceding would serve as an index. Ibid. p. 210.

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"Accordingly, the book consists of fourteen chapters of prints, filling eighty-four pages, with three couple of sheep in each, each couple numbered.

"Matterdale. Chap. 12.

"No. 12. William Calvert, Esq., Wallthwaite.

"Ritted far ear; old sheep, M on the near side; hogs, full cripping across each buttock, and no letter.

"No. 17. John Sutton.

"Cropped, and muck-forked on the far ear; under fold bitted on the near; a red stroke over the fillets of the near side, the form of a grindstone handle.

"No. 23. John Brownrigg, Matterdale End.

"Cropped far ear, bitted near; a red pop on the top of the shoulder; J. B. on the near side.

The ear marks are what are most de

pended on, because they cannot be so easily got rid of.

"To which is prefixed an Index, shewing the proprietors' names and places of abode, with a description of the marks, &c. By The ear is either cropt, under or upper William Mounsey and William Kirkpatrick, on the plan originally devised by Josephmuck-forked, or clicking-forked, marked halved, under key-bitted or upper, holed,

Walker.

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with a three square hole, &c.; and these marks are varied, by being either on the cropt or otherwise entire ear.

The other marks have all their technical names.

The copy before me is one which my brother T. has borrowed from a neighbour. It is neatly bound in red sheep; and has pasted in it a printed paper with these words, "Newlands' Public Book."

The sheep are coloured according to the description, and a blank in the engraving left for the ears of one in each couple.

"THE Wells of rocky Cumberland

Have each a Saint or Patron, Who holds an annual festival The joy of maid and matron.

"And to this day as erst they wont,

The youths and maids repair
To certain wells on certain days
And hold a Revel there.
"Of sugar-sweet and liquorice,
With water from the spring,
They mix a pleasant beverage,
And May-Day carols sing."

MR. JOHN HUTCHINSON'S
June Days' Jingle.

By the public house in Newlands, there is a green cock-pit.

LOOKING down from Hindscarth upon Buttermere, the light fell so upon the lake that one part, which was in shade, appeared like a hole in it, or pit.

WHERE the hill has been burnt, the cranberry leaves are red.

THE wooden railroad is said to have been first invented by Mr. Carlisle Spedding at Whitehaven. — DR. DIXON'S Life of Dr. Brownrigg, p. 108.

IN Mrs. Wilson's youth it would have been thought a sin for any one to have sold honey in this place. It was given freely to any who happened to want it.

AMONG the Lansdowne MSS. (No. 17.7.) is a letter from Augsburg, written in Latin to the Lords Leicester and Burghley, by David Hang and John Languaver, co-partners with their Lordships in the mines at Keswick, concerning those mines. A.D. 1573. -Catal. p. 33.

Ibid. p. 37, No. 18. 51. ARTICLES proposed to the Lord Treasurer to be entered into with the Queen, by the Company of the mines at Keswick. A.D. 1574.

Ibid. p. 48, No. 24. 1. EDWARD BRADDYL to the Lord Treasurer, wanting to know what must be done with the Queen's copper in her store-house at Keswick. A.D. 1576.

MORE papers concerning these mines.-P. 56, No. 28. 4-11.

Ibid. p. 115, No. 61. 69. LETTER describing something of the country and people near Kendal, to Lord Burghley.

Cotton MSS. Titus B. iii. 7. KESWICK mines.

THE parsonage house in Langdale was licensed as an alehouse, because it was so poor a living, that the Curate could not otherwise have supported himself.

Owen Lloyd who now holds the curacy told me this.

"CARES and sorrows cast away, This is the old wives' holyday." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Women pleased, act v. sc. iii.

A LARGE leaved sort of clover, with a purple spot in the centre of the leaves, grows as a weed in this nursery garden,— the seed having been accidentally imported in some package from America.

JOHN EARSDEN and George Mason composed the music in a work entitled, "The Ayres that were sung and played at Brougham Castle in Westmoreland, in the King's entertainment, given by the Right Hon. the Earl of Cumberland, and his right noble

son the Lord Clifford. Fol. London, 1618."

-HAWKINS, vol. 4, p. 25.

Possibly here might be words by Daniel.

Tuesday, 19 Jan. 1836. I WENT out at one o'clock to shake hands with my old friend G. Peachy before his departure. It was a bright frosty day, and my Scotch bonnet afforded no shelter to my eyes, which are however now so used to it as not to be inconvenienced by the light. I was reading as usual, Clarke's Christiad1 was the

I had the Christiad in hand at this time, and had written to Southey on the subject. This induced him to turn to it. The underwritten is from the fly-leaf of his copy transcribed into my own:-"Robert Clarke, educated at the English College at Douay, where, as I am informed, he was Professor of the Classics. He after

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