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Excerpt from Observations on Several Parts of England, Vol. 2 of 2: Particularly the Mountains and Lakes of Cumberland, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772
This mountain forms rather a vaf't ridge, than a pointed fummit 3 and is connedted with two or three other mountains of inferior dignity: itfelf is faid to be equal to Skiddaw; which is the common gage of altitude through the whole country; and therefore it may be fuppofed to be the higheft. No mountain afpires to be higher than Skiddaw: fome boal't an equal height: but two or three only have real pretenfions.
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