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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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What
I
had
heard
of
Loch
Lomond,
or
any
other
place
in
Great
Britain,
had
given
me
no
idea
of
anything
like
what
we
beheld:
it
was
an
outlandish
scene--we
might
have
believed
ourselves
in
North
America.
The
islands
were
of
every
possible
variety
of
shape
and
surface--hilly
and
level,
large
and
small,
bare,
rocky,
pastoral,
or
covered
with
wood.
Immediately
under
my
eyes
lay
one
large
flat
island,
bare
and
green,
so
flat
and
low
that
it
scarcely
appeared
to
rise
above
the
water,
with
straggling
peat-stacks
and
a
single
hut
upon
one
of
its
out-shooting
promontories--for
it
was
of
a
very
irregular
shape,
though
perfectly
flat.
Another,
its
next
neighbour,
and
still
nearer
to
us,
was
covered
over
with
heath
and
coppice-wood,
the
surface
undulating,
with
flat
or
sloping
banks
towards
the
water,
and
hollow
places,
cradle-like
valleys,
behind.
These
two
islands,
with
Inch-ta-vannach,
where
we
were
standing,
were
intermingled
with
the
water,
I
might
say
interbedded
and
interveined
with
it,
in
a
manner
that
was
exquisitely
pleasing.
There
were
bays
innumerable,
straits
or
passages
like
calm
rivers,
landlocked
lakes,
and,
to
the
main
water,
stormy
promontories.
The
solitary
hut
on
the
flat
green
island
seemed
unsheltered
and
desolate,
and
yet
not
wholly
so,
for
it
was
but
a
broad
river's
breadth
from
the
covert
of
the
wood
of
the
other
island.
Near
to
these
is
a
miniature,
an
islet
covered
with
trees,
on
which
stands
a
small
ruin
that
looks
like
the
remains
of
a
religious
house;
it
is
overgrown
with
ivy,
and
were
it
not
that
the
arch
of
a
window
or
gateway
may
be
distinctly
seen,
it
would
be
difficult
to
believe
that
it
was
not
a
tuft
of
trees
growing
in
the
shape
of
a
ruin,
rather
than
a
ruin
overshadowed
by
trees.
When
we
had
walked
a
little
further
we
saw
below
us,
on
the
nearest
large
island,
where
some
of
the
wood
had
been
cut
down,
a
hut,
which
we
conjectured
to
be
a
bark
hut.
It
appeared
to
be
on
the
shore
of
a
little
forest
lake,
enclosed
by
Inch-ta-vannach,
where
we
were,
and
the
woody
island
on
which
the
hut
stands.
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