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| What makes a puddle a tarn, a tarn a lake? what counts. |
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| How do you count the lakes and tarns. There probably are formal definitions of what
is a lake, as different from a tarn, what is a reservoir, and what is just a pond
or large puddle. I'm not convinced it's very important to define exactly what, or
practical to try, or to count them. |
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 Gilpin 1786 |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 148:- "... There is nothing amidst this mountain scenery more interesting than its tarns. Their very use is one which gratifies one's sense of beauty. Their use is to cause such a distribution of the waters as may fertilize without inundating the lands below. After rains, if the waters came down" goto sourcePage 149:- "all at once, the vales would be flooded,- as we see, very inconveniently, by the consequences of improved agricultural drainage (p.17). The tarns are a security, as far as they go; and at present the only one. The lower brooks swell after rain, and pour themselves into the rivers, while the mountain brooks aloft are busy in the same way, emptying themselves into the tans. By the time the streams in the valley are subsiding, the upper tarns are full, and begin to overflow; and now the overflow can be received in the valley without injury. As for their aspects, under all lights, and in all weathers, they must be studied on the spot, for no description can afford any impression of the truth to highway tourists." |
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| references:- |
Blair, Don: 1993: Exploring Lakeland Tarns: Ellenborough Press (Maryport, Cumbria)::
ISBN 1 873551 05 3 Fryer, Geoffrey: 1991: Natural History of the Lakes, Tarns and Streams of the English Lake District: Freshwater Biological Association:: ISBN 0 900386 50 9 Haworth, Elizabeth (et al): 2003: Tarns of the Central Lake District: Brathay Exploration Group Trust:: ISBN 0 906015 17 0 Heaton Cooper, W: 1966: Lakes, The: Warne, Frederick and Co (London) Heaton Cooper, W: 1960: Tarns of Lakeland, The: Warne, Frederick and Co (London) Horne, J E M &Horne, D M: 1984: Lake District Waters, an Index and Bibliography of Scientific Research: Freshwater Biological Association:: ISSN 0308 6739 Macan, T T: 1970: Biological Studies of the English Lakes: Longman Group (London):: ISBN 0 582 46019 0 Mill, Hugh R &Heawood, Edward: 1895: English Lakes, The: Philip, George and Son (London) Parker, John Wilson: 2002: Atlas of the English Lakes: Cicerone Press (Milnthorpe, Cumbria):: ISBN 1 85284 355 1 Ramsbottom, A E: 1976: Depth Charts of the Cumbrian Lakes: Freshwater Biological Association:: echo sounder, Win/Was/Enn/Thi/Bas/Est/Low/Gra/Haw/Ble Watson, John: 1925: English Lake District Fisheries: Foulis, T N (London and Edinburgh) |
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