[283] 1836.
1814.
... its ...
FOOTNOTES:
[CS] There is still a single "yew-tree" high up the eastern side of the valley on the face of Lingmoor Fell,
ED.
Darkening the silver bosom of the crag.
[CT] The local allusions in this passage, and in what follows, are most exact and literal. The three men are supposed to leave the cottage, and to cross to the west side of the tarn, just a little to the north of the fir-wood which overshadows it. The "barrier of steep rock" is the low perpendicular crag to the west of the tarn, immediately below the fir-wood, and the "semicirque of turf-clad ground" is apparent at a glance, whether seen from below the rock or from above it. There are many fragments of ice-borne rock, high up the flank of Blake Rigg to the west, and on the slopes of Lingmoor to the east, which might at first sight be mistaken for the stone, like
A stranded ship, with keel upturned, that rests