It is almost certain that he refers to the path over the Hay or Watch Hill, which he and his "sister Emmeline" could see daily from the high terrace, at the foot of their garden in Cockermouth, where they used to "chase the butterfly" and visit the "sparrow's nest" in the "impervious shelter" of privet and roses.
Dr.Cradock wrote to me (January 1886), "an old map of the county round about Keswick, including Cockermouth, dated 1789, entirely confirms Dr.Dodgson's statement.

The road over 'Hay Hill' is marked clearly as a carriage road to Isel.

The miles are marked on the map.

The 'summit' of the hill is 'naked': for the map marks woods, where they existed, and none are marked on Hay Hill."-- Ed.] [Footnote D: A part of the following paragraph is written with sundry variations of text, in Dorothy Wordsworth's MS.

book, dated May to December 1802 .-- Ed.] [Footnote E: In the summer of 1793, on his return from the Isle of Wight, and before proceeding to Bristol and Wales, he wandered with his friend William Calvert over Salisbury plain for three days .-- Ed.] [Footnote F: Compare the reference to "Sarum's naked plain" in the third book of 'The Excursion', l.