The hills and valleys were white with snow, but there was none falling, and Mr. Evans, the elderly surgeon from Ambleside, rode over to Great Langdale on his elderly cob to look at Robert Haswell, and was called in to see Lord Maulevrier.

Cromwell attacked Langdale with his whole force next morning, and the Royalists after fighting stoutly were entirely defeated.

'Yo couldna get at Langdale for t' snaw lasst week,' said the young farmer, as they turned a corner into the Skelwith Valley.

He took the mountain-path which led past the ghyll, up to the ridge which separates Langdale from Grasmere and Easedale.

In 'The Excursion' he passes from Langdale to Grasmere, over to Patterdale, back to Grasmere, and again to Hawes Water, without warning; and even in the case of the "Duddon Sonnets" he introduces a description taken direct from Rydal.