ON CAMBRIAN AND
CUMBRIAN HILLS
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First Edition
1908
Revised Edition, July
1922
A mountain peak
Frontispiece]
[G. P. Abraham, Keswick.
THE GREAT GABLE.
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ON CAMBRIAN AND
CUMBRIAN HILLS
PILGRIMAGES TO SNOWDON
AND SCAFELL
By
HENRY S. SALT
(REVISED EDITION)
London: C. W. DANIEL, LTD.
GRAHAM HOUSE, TUDOR STREET, E.C.4
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To C. L. S.
I send thee, love, this upland flower I found,
While wandering lonely with o’erclouded heart,
Hid in a grey recess of rocky ground
Among the misty mountains far apart;
And there I heard the wild wind’s luring sound,
Which whoso trusts, is healed of earthborn care,
And watched the lofty ridges loom around,
Yet yearned in vain their secret faith to share.
When lo! the sudden sunlight, sparkling keen,
Poured full upon the vales the glorious day,
And bared the abiding mountain-tops serene,
And swept the shifting vapour-wreaths away:—
Then with the hills’ true heart my heart beat true,
Heavens opened, cloud-thoughts vanished, and I knew.
1879.
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Preface to First Edition
Books about British mountains are mostlyof two kinds, the popular, written forthe tourist, and the technical, written by therock-climber. The author of this little studyof the hills of Carnarvonshire and Cumberlandis aware that it cannot claim acceptance undereither of those heads, lacking as it does boththe usefulness of the general “guide,” andthe thrill of the cragsman’s adventure: hepublishes it, nevertheless, as at least a trueexpression of the love which our mountainscan inspire, and he will be content if it meets,here and there, with some friendly “pilgrims”whose sympathies are akin to his own.
Nor is he without hope that his plea for thepreservation of Snowdon and other mountain“sanctuaries,” before they are utterly disfigured,may give a much-needed warningwhile yet there is time.
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