button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.78-79
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towering from the valley, close the scene.

  Bowder Stone
No. 42.


BOWDER STONE.

Mr. Pocklington, who is now the proprietor of Bowder Stone, has pulled down the walls with which it was heretofore encumbered, and thereby rendered it an excellent painter's study.
Bowder Stone is five miles from Keswick, on the road to Rosthwaite.

  Folly Bridge
No. 43.


FOLLY BRIDGE, IN BORROWDALE.

The source of the river passing under this bridge is in Sprinkling Tarn, which, descending the mountain Sprinkling, unites itself with Sty Head Tarn; and having reached the valley, winds between the village of Seathwaite and
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the Black Lead Mines, to Folly Bridge, which is half a mile from Rosthwaite.
On a stone erected near this bridge, is engraved,

"I count it folly you have done,
As you have neither wife nor son."
to which, by way of answer, the following lines are added:

"Daughter I have, God give her grace,
And heaven be her seating place."
  Coom Gill
  birch trees
No. 44.


BIRCH TREES, IN COOM GILL.

Coom Gill is engulphed in fantastic scenery; a water spout, in prodigious volume, fell, many years ago, on the mountain above, tumbling about rocks and trees in the wildest confusion, as may be seen by those who wish to visit Coom Gill.
On this stream, and about two miles
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