One is here, however--as in a former passage, when we fixed on Yewdale as the one described as being a 'cultured vale'-- obliged to remember that in Wordsworth's boyhood wheat was grown more extensively than is now the case in these parts.

Of course, the Furness Fell, above Colthouse, might have been the scene.

It is eminently suited to the description." Ed.
* * * * * NOTE IV .-- DOROTHY WORDSWORTH AT CAMBRIDGE IN 1808.

THE ASH TREE AT ST.
JOHN'S COLLEGE (See p.

224, 'The Prelude', book vi.ll.