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_Foot-note_. Heading: 'Dungeon-ghyll Force.' _Ghyll_, in the dialect of Cumberland and Westmoreland, is a short and, for the most part, a steep narrow valley, with a stream running through it.
_Force_ is the word universally employed in these dialects for waterfall. 39.
*_Anecdote for Fathers_.
[XII.] This was suggested in front of Alfoxden.
The boy was a son of my friend Basil Montagu, who had been two or three years under our care.
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