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water. The noise is prodigious, as the readers of Southey's
description are aware: and the accessaries are magnificent.
Gowder Crag on the left, and Shepherd's Crag on the right,
shine in the sun or frown in gloom like no other rocks about
any of the falls of the district; and vegetation flourishes
every where, from the pendulous shrubs in the fissures, 200
feet overhead, to the wild flowers underfoot in the wood. On
a lustrous summer evening, when the lights are radiant, and
the shadows sharp and deep, the scene is incomparable,
whatever may be the state of the water. When the stream is
fullest, and the wind is favourable, it is said the fall is
heard a distance of four miles. There is something else to
be heard here; and that is the Borrowdale echoes. A cannon
is planted in the meadow before the inn, which awakens an
uproar from the surrounding crags to Glaramara.
The road from Lodore to Keswick, about three miles, runs
between the lake and the Wallabarrow and Falcon Crags. It is
a charming walk in all seasons,- sheltered in winter, shady,
for the most part, in summer; and in spring and autumn
presenting a vast variety of foliage, bursting forth or
fading.
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