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FOOTNOTES:
[A] The Irish coast can be seen from Black Comb, but it is seldom visible till after sundown.—Ed.
[B] Compare, in The Minstrels of Winandermere, by Charles Farish, p. 33—
Close by the sea, lone sentinel,
Black Comb his forward station keeps;
He breaks the sea's tumultuous swell,
And ponders o'er the level deeps.Ed.
WRITTEN WITH A SLATE PENCIL ON A STONE, ON THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN OF BLACK COMB
Composed 1813.—Published 1815
[The circumstance, alluded to at the conclusion of these verses, was told me by Dr. Satterthwaite, who was Incumbent of Bootle, a small town at the foot of Black Comb. He had the particulars from one of the engineers who was employed in making trigonometrical surveys of that region.—I. F.]