The charms of Tarn Hows I have mentioned in my chapter on Coniston Water; it is well worthy an afternoon’s ramble, though if the visitor can put off the hour till the last charabanc has rattled down the glen, he will be the more repaid.
SEATHWAITE TARN, DUDDON VALLEY
My space limit has long run out, so I must only indicate the positions of a last knot of tarns. Devoke Water, within a few miles of Eskdale Green, holds pink-fleshed trout, the progenitors of which are said to have been brought by the monks of Furness Abbey from sunny Italy. Burnmoor tarn lies between lofty Scawfell and Wastwater Screes. The moor around is studded with Druid circles and other memorials of a vanished race. Then in Stye Head pass is a dark brooding tarn; on the fell towards Great End is Sprinkling tarn, near which is the famous rain gauge, where annually the highest English rainfall is recorded. In twenty minutes an inch of rain once fell here; I have had several quick-time drenchings in this neighbourhood. On the fells between Wastwater and Ennerdale are Scoat and Lowfell tarns, the former of which is reputed to contain a golden fish, and the latter a silvery one. Floutern tarn is the furthest away of the mountain waters, lying on the desolate fell between Buttermere and Ennerdale.
INDEX
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] Q [R] [S] [T] [U] V [W] X [Y] Z
A Accommodation, [5] Adventure in winter, [159] Aira Force, [197] Ambleside, [28], [30] Americans, [12] Angle tarn, [204], [214] Angler, [31] Anglers Crag, [103] ” Inn, [100] Angler’s yarn, an, [130] Armboth House, [173] Autumn, [44]
B Badger, the, [56], [187] Bank holiday, [154] Barley-bread, [154] Barn Scar, [207] Barrow Cascade, [143] Bassenthwaite, [156]-164 Belle Isle, [15], [18] Benn, the, [175] “Birds o’ passage,” [184] Bit-by-bit reform, [42] Blea tarn, [219] ” Water, [212] “Bloomery,” [62], [72] Boating, [101] Bolton, Mr., [14] Borrowdale, [144] Botling, [91] Bowder Stone, [152] Bowness, [20] Bowness Bay, [20] ” landing-place, [21] Bowscale tarn, [207] Brandlehow, [199] Brantwood, [69], [74] Brook trout, [180] Brothers’ Water, [207], [214] Burnmoor tarn, [223] Buttermere, [124]-136 ” after series of rainstorms, [128] Buttermere, fishing of, [132] ” in winter mist, [132] ” maid of, [125] ” my first visit to, [127] Butterwort, [182]
C Calgarth, [24] ” skulls at, [24] Carrier, country, [40], [57], [58] Carrion crows, [184] Castle Crag, [144] Castle (sham) which Manchester erected, [173] Catbells, [146], [151] Causeways, [52] Chant of profit, [146] Char, [26], [61], [66], [91], [101], [190], [192] ” Dub, [101] ” fishing, [26] ” pie, [67] ” potted, [66] Charcoal burning, [73] Cheese, home-made, [154] Civil war, the, [2] Claife, [53] “Clipping,” [114] Coach-road through Buttermere, [124] Coaches, [6] Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway, [7] Cock-fighting, [57] Codale, [217] Coleridge, Hartley, [35] Collies, [215] Colthouse, [53] Colwith, [219] Coniston, [221] ” Old Hall, [66] ” Water, [60]-78 Convention week at Keswick, [153] Copper, [62] Corpse-road, [183] Cottages, old, [152] ” old-style, [191] Crosthwaite Church, [148] Crozier, John, [157] Crummock Water, [116]-123 Cuthbert, [147]
D Dales, a youngster of the, [180] ” dwelling, [37] Dalesman, a, [156] Dalesman’s Keswick, [154] Dalesmen, the, [3] Dancing, [109] Davy, John, [26] Deer, red native, [181], [186] De Quincey, [35] Derwent, the, [144] ” Isle, [138] ” vale of, [151] Derwentwater, [137]-155 ” Earls of, [140] Devoke Water, [207], [223] Dialect, Cumbrian, [155] Dipper, the, [130] “Dixon’s Three Loups,” [213] Dobson, Tommie, [79] Domesday, [49] Dotterel, the, [122] Dove Nest, [27] Dunmail, [2] ” cairn of, [167] ” pass of, [166] ” story of, [167] Dunmallet, [200]