The Morasses, earthy scaurs, or gentle uplands of its coasts, are only remarkable for their large walnut and buttonwood trees, which, in a dense umbrageous belt, shut out all view of the interior from the traveller on the lake, except at the partial clearances.

I began to run, to loosen my numbed limbs, and presently fell headlong over a little scaur into a moss-hole.

Behind that the countless multitude of hills, swelling here and receding there, a jumbled heap of mighty peaks and fretted pinnacles, with their glistening sides and dark shadowless ravines, their mighty scaurs and their abrupt serrated edges showing out clearly and boldly defined against the evening sky.

Save where, unceasingly, Among the pillared scaurs Of perilous Farnes, wild waves for ever more Breaking in foam, Sounded as some far strife through the star-haunted gloam.

The waves break all round the rocky scaur, and fill the air with their thunder, while the strong wind blows the spray into beards which stream backwards from the incoming crests.

And down the shingly scaur he plunged, and caught, And set it on his head, and in his heart Heard murmurs,'Lo!