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Excerpt from A Concise Description of the English Lakes, and Adjacent Mountains: With General Directions to Tourists, Notices of the Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology of the District, Observations on Meteorology, the Floating Island in Derwent Lake, and the Black-Lead Mine in Borrowdale
As a resident among the objects he attempts to describe, the Author of this Manual has possessed many opportunities of making observations, which would escape the notice of the transient visitor - the compiler from the works of others - or even of one who underk a tour for the professed purpow of making a book.
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