(p.

386) in Appendix to this volume .-- Ed.] [Footnote R: In one of the small mountain farm-houses near Hawkshead .-- Ed.] [Footnote S: Compare 'Paradise Lost', book viii.l.

528: 'Walks, and the melody of birds.' Ed.] [Footnote T: Dr.Cradock has suggested to me the probable course of that morning walk.
"All that can be safely said as to the course of that memorable morning walk is that, in that neighbourhood, a view of the sea can only be obtained at a considerable elevation; also that if the words 'in _front_ the sea lay laughing' are to be taken as rigidly exact, the poet's progress towards Hawkshead must have been in a direction mainly southerly, and therefore from the country north of that place.
These and all other conditions of the description are answered in several parts of the range of hills lying between Elterwater and Hawkshead." See Appendix, Note III.p.

389 .-- Ed.] [Footnote U: Compare the sixth line of the poem, beginning 'This Lawn, a carpet all alive.' (1829.) And Horace, 'Epistolae', lib.i.ep.xi.l.

28: 'Strenua nos exercet inertia.' Ed.] [Footnote V: The "brook" is Sawrey beck, and the "long ascent" is the second of the two, in crossing from Windermere to Hawkshead, and going over the ridge between the two Sawreys.