“… the Lake District of northwest England-the misty, rainy, mystic assemblage of cloud-capped mountains and silver “meres” that makes the area from Kendal through Windermere, Ambleside, Rydal Water, Grasmere, Derwentwater, and Keswick to Cockermouth one of the fairest regions of our planet. Not toweringly majestic-the tallest mountain reaches only to three thousand feet; not congenial to consumptives- the rain falls there almost daily; but the mists embrace the mountains amicably, the sun breaks out nearly every day, and accustomed denizens bear the wanderings of the weather because of the peace of the villages, the evergreen foliage. the abounding flowers happy in the dew, and the spirits of mad Coleridge and steady Wordsworth echoing through the hills.”
– Will and Ariel Durant “The Age of Napoleon”
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