[3] The Great Gavel, so called, I imagine, from its resemblance to the gable end of a house, is one of the highest of the Cumberland mountains. It stands at the head of the several vales of Ennerdale, Wastdale, and Borrowdale.
The Leeza is a river which flows into the lake of Ennerdale; on issuing from the lake it changes its name, and is called the End, Eyne, or Enna. It falls into the sea a little below Egremont.
[4] A note to this passage in "Percy's Reliques" (the editor of which, it must be stated, modernised and added to this ballad), informs us that Tearne-Wadling is near Hesketh, on the road from Penrith, where there is a tradition still in existence that an old castle once stood upon the spot.
[5] Clipping is the word used in the North of England for shearing.
[6] From Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, and Rev. C. C. Clarke's One Hundred Wonders of the World.
[7] Lonsdale Magazine, vol. ii. p. 313.
[8] Coniston Hall, by Rev. W. Gresley, M.A., p. 135.
[9] Hutchinson's History of Cumberland, p. 420, vol. i.
[10] Westmoreland and Cumberland Illustrated, p. 217.
[11] Lonsdale Magazine, vol. ii. p. 425.