Mr.Carter, who edited 'The Prelude' in 1850, says it was the former, but this is not absolutely certain .-- Ed.] [Footnote X: A "cottage latch"-- probably the same as that in use in Dame Tyson's time--is still on the door of the house where she lived at Hawkshead .-- Ed.] [Footnote Y: Probably on the western side of the Vale, above the village.

There is but one "'jutting' eminence" on this side of the valley.

It is an old moraine, now grass-covered; and, from this point, the view both of the village and of the vale is noteworthy.

The jutting eminence, however, may have been a crag, amongst the Colthouse heights, to the north-east of Hawkshead .-- Ed.] [Footnote Z: Compare in the 'Ode, Intimations of Immortality': '...

those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings,' etc.
Ed.] [Footnote a: Coleridge's school days were spent at Christ's Hospital in London.