[FY] With this compare The Prelude, book i. line 463 (vol. iii. p. 146)—
Till all was tranquil as a dreamless sleep.
[FZ] The "semicirque of turf-clad ground," where the conversations recorded in books iii. and iv. had been carried on.—ED.
[GA] Towards Little Langdale.—ED.
[GB] See Matthew Arnold's address as President of the Wordsworth Society, in its Transactions for the year 1883.—ED.
[GC] The sledge used for bringing down peats or bracken from the uplands. The "sledge" has not yet entirely given way to the "wheel," many of the Westmoreland peasants still using it, when bringing down their winter stores of fuel and bedding, as they do in Norway.—ED.
[GD] The vale of Little Langdale.—ED.
[GE] "After we quit his cottage, passing over a low ridge, we descend into another vale, that of Little Langdale, towards the head of which stands embowered, or partly shaded by yews and other trees, something between a cottage and a mansion, or gentleman's house, such as they once were in this country. This I convert into the parsonage, and at the same time, and as by the waving of a magic wand, I turn the comparatively confined vale of Langdale, its tarn, and the rude chapel which once adorned the valley, into the stately and comparatively spacious vale of Grasmere and its ancient parish church."—I. F.
The Fenwick note is not quite clear as to the relation of Hackett to Blea Tarn Cottage. Dr. Cradock thinks that "Wordsworth meant that his description of the cottage was borrowed from Hackett (which he frequently visited), so far at least as the solitary clock, and the cottage stairs, and the dark and low apartments were concerned."—ED.
[GF] See the note on the previous page.—ED.