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Title: A complete guide to the English lakes,
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Windermere: : J. Garnett. London: : Whittaker and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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r his return to the Bed Lion, and his dinner, thestranger will go to the churchyard. In the church isa medallion portrait of Wordsworth, accompanied byan inscription adapted from a dedication of Mr. Kebles.The simple and modest tombstone in the churchyardwill please him better. At present it bears only thename of the poet, — in his case, an all-sufficient memo-rial : but it is understood that some dates and otherparticulars will be filled in hereafter. Beside him lieshis only daughter, and next to her, her husband, —whose first wife is next him on the other side. Someother children of Wordsworth, who died young, areburied near; and one grandchild. Close behind thefamily group lies Hartley Coleridge, at whose funeralthe white-haired Wordsworth attended, not very longbefore his own death. This spot, under the yews, be-sides the gushing Bothay and encircled by greenmountains, is a fitting resting-place for the poet of theregion. He chose it himself; and every one rejoicesthat he did.
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EYDAL LAKE. 53 Just after entering the mail road, the driver willpoint out the cottage in which the poet and his sisterlived, many long years ago, when Scott was their guest.Several good houses have sprung up near it, within afew years. The promontory which here causes the laketo contract to the little river (which is called theRothay in all the intervals of the chain of lakes,) maybe passed in three ways. The mail road runs round itspoint, and therefore keeps beside the water; — theRoman road, where the Wishing Grate used to be,crosses it by a rather steep ascent and descent; — anda shorter road still, steeper and boggy, cuts across itsnarrowest part, and comes out at the Rydal Quarries.Our traveller will take the mail road, probably. It willsoon bring him to Rydal Lake ; and he cannot butthink the valley very lovely in the summer afternoon.On the opposite side of the lake is Loughrigg, with itsterrace-walk distinctly visible half-way up. The islandsare wooded; and on one of them

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