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Derwent Water: regatta 1784
site name:-   Derwent Water
civil parish:-   Keswick (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   regatta
locality type:-   recreation
1Km square:-   NY2620 (etc) 
10Km square:-   NY22

evidence:-   old text:- Clarke 1787
item:-  gunechoesfrench horn
source data:-   Guide book, A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, written and published by James Clarke, Penrith, Cumberland, and in London etc, 1787; published 1787-93.
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"At the Regatta in the year 1784, I observed a most striking and beautiful effort from the union of the reports of the guns with the music of the French horns. Upon the retreat of the fleet, and the firing of the first feu-de-joye, the music begun and continued till the renewal of the attack: these pleasing sounds, which when softened and reverberated by innumerable cliffs exhibit an almost supernatural tide of harmony, were at times disturbed by the explosions of the guns. First, the loud fierce report of the cannon totally drowned the music; then all was silent for a few seconds, and the music again was heard. Scarce could the ear comprehend a note when the gun was re-echoed from the surrounding precipices like a peal of thunder: when this ceased, the horns again were heard, but almost instantly the uproar arose among other and more distant cliffs; which was repeated many times from every discharge."
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