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The Bowder Stone next arrests the attention, standing on a
high bank overlooking the river Derwent.
'Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground,
The hidden nook discover'd to our view
A mass of rock, resembling, as it lay
Right at the foot of that moist precipice,
A stranded ship, with keel upturn'd, that rests
Fearless of winds and waves.'
This is an immense fragment of rock, which may possibly at
some very distant period have fallen from the mountains
near, and have ever since remained in its present position.
Its dimensions are as follows:- length, sixty-two feet;
height, thirty-six feet; circumference, eighty-nine feet;
mass, twenty-three thousand and ninety cubic feet; and
estimated weight, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one
tons. The appearance of it is not improved by the ladder
affixed to it to enable people to see from its top, what can
be much better viewed from Castle Crag. A slate bench near
it, present a pleasing view into Borrowdale. On the right
are Randerson's Band Rocks; beneath meanders the Derwent,
enriching with welcome fertility, the fields and meadows
through which are scattered the dwellings of Borrowdale.
These rich meadows stretch to the borders of the mountains,
whose
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