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LETTERS ABOUT IRELAND
 

The Lake District

IN order that it may not be said that there are lakes only in Scotland, they have a whole district in England allotted to them; Derwentwater is there, and Lake Bassenthwaite, Wastwater and Thirlemere and Grasmere and Windermere and Ulleswater and many others; it was here that the Lake Poets lived, and Wordsworth’s grave is at Grasmere beside a nice old church with

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