1. 25. sixty years edd. 3-5: fifty years ed. 2: forty years ed. 1.

P. 60, 11. 5-6. Every family spun from its own flock the wool, &c. Cf. also p. 90, and Michael, 11. 80–5.

1. 24. the native forest edd. 2-5: the native forests ed. 1. 1. 29. native woods edd. 3-5: native forest edd. 1, 2. P. 61, 1. 4. steeper edd. 2-5: steepest ed. 1.

1. 8. The reader's attention has been directed edd. 3-5: I have already directed the reader's attention edd. 1, 2.

1. 32. Cluster'd like stars, &c. from Wordsworth's description of Grasmere in the Recluse: Home at Grasmere, a MS. poem first published in 1888.

P. 62, 1. 4. the Dwelling or Fire-house, as it is ordinarily called edd. 4, 5: the dwelling-house edd. 1-3.

11. 12-13. they have received without incongruity additions edd. 4, 5: they have received additions edd. 1-3.

11. 16-19. these humble dwellings remind the contemplative spectator of a production of Nature, and may . . . rather be said to have grown than to have been erected, &c. So of a cottage in Excursion, vi. 1143-6 :

Ye might think

That it had sprung self-raised from earth, or grown
Out of the living rock, to be adorned

By nature only:

The illustration here given of a characteristic Lake country cottage is taken from Picturesque Sketches of Rustic Scenery (1815).

11. 32–3. the singular beauty of the chimneys. Cf. Wordsworthiana: Reminiscences of Wordsworth, by H. B. Rawnsley : 'Wudsworth was a great un for chimleys, had summut to say in the making of a deal of 'em hereabout. There was 'most all the chimleys Rydal way built after his mind. I 'member he and the Doctor (Mr. Arnold) had great arguments about the chimleys time we was building Foxhow, and Wudsworth sed he liked a bit o' colour in 'em. And that the chimley coigns sud be natural headed and natural bedded, a little red and a little yallar. For there is a bit of colour in the quarry stone up Easedale way. And he'ed a great fancy an 'aw for chimleys square up hauf way, and round the t'other. And so we built 'em that how.'

P. 63, 11. 9-10. ascending from it through the still air edd. 4, 5 through the still air ascending from it edd. 1-3.

:

11. 10-11. These dwellings, mostly built, as has been said, of rough unhewn stone, are roofed with slates edd. 3-5: These

dwellings, as has been said, are built of rough unhewn stone; and they are roofed with slates edd. 1, 2.

11. 13-14. and are, therefore, rough and uneven in their surface, so that both edd. 2-5 and the slates are therefore rough and uneven in their surfaces. Both ed. 1.

1. 19. clothed in part with a vegetable garb ed. 5: clothed with this vegetable garb edd. 2-4 by this vegetable garb with which they are clothed ed. 1.

1. 26. Add the little garden. The picture of the cottage garden in Excursion, vi, resumes many of the qualities here enumerated :

Brought from the woods the honeysuckle twines
Around the porch, and seems, in that trim place,
A plant no longer wild; the cultured rose
There blossoms, strong in health, and will be soon
Roof-high; the wild pink crowns the garden wall,
And with the flowers are intermingled stones
Sparry and bright, rough scatterings of the hills.
yet hath she,
Within the garden, like the rest, a bed
For her own flowers and favourite herbs, a space,
By sacred charter, holden for her use.
-These, and whatever else the garden bears

Of fruit and flower, permission asked or not,

I freely gather; and my leisure draws

A not unfrequent pastime from the hum

Of bees around their range of sheltered hives

Busy in that enclosure; while the rill,

That sparkling thrids the rocks, attunes his voice
To the pure course of human life which there
Flows on in solitude.

(Excursion, vi. 1149-55, 1161-72.) Cf. also the description of Margaret's cottage (Excursion, ii. 713-29) with the honeysuckle, crowding round the porch', thedaisy flowers and thrift', and the 'carnations, once prized for their surpassing beauty'.

11. 21-2. will lead him on into edd. 3-5 will introduce him, nay will lead him on into edd. 1, 2.

1. 26. bridges. The view of Grisedale Bridge, with Place Fell behind it, here given, is taken from Green's Series of Sixty Small Prints (1814).

P. 64, 1. 4. sixty years edd. 3-5: fifty years ed. 2: forty years ed. 1.

P. 65, 1. 12. The architecture of the churches. . . P. 66, 1. 10 these objects, &c. edd. 2-5: The lowliness and simple elegance

of these churches and chapels, a well-proportioned oblong with a porch, in some instances a steeple tower, and in others nothing more than a small belfry in which one or two bells hang visibly-these are objects which, &c. ed. 1.

Footnote 1 was added in ed. 4; footnote 2 in ed. 3.

P. 67, 1. 8. majestic timber edd. 4, 5: In addition to such objects as have been hitherto described, it may be mentioned that, as we descend towards the open part of the Vales, we meet with the remains of ancient Parks, and with old Mansions of more stately architecture; and it may be observed that to these circumstances the country owes whatever ornament it retains of majestic and full-grown timber, as the remains of the park of the ancient family of the Ratcliffs at Derwent-water, Gowbray-park, and the venerable woods of Rydal edd. 1-3.

11. 9-11. scattered, also, houses of a middle rank between the pastoral cottage and the old hall residence of the knight or esquire edd. 4, 5: scattered, with more spacious domains attached to them, houses of a middle rank, between the pastoral cottage and the old hall-residence of the more wealthy Estatesman edd. 2, 3 : also are scattered houses. hall-residences of the more wealthy estatesman with more spacious domains attached to them ed. 1.

11. 11-21. Such houses. . . unavoidably commands added in edd. 4, 5.

1. 25. · sixty edd. 3-5: fifty ed. 2: forty ed. 1.

11. 26-7. perfect Republic of Shepherds and Agriculturists. On the natural republicanism of the Lake country in Wordsworth's youth, cf. Prelude, ix. 215-22.

1. 30. neighbour: footnote added in ed. 3.

SECTION THIRD

P. 69, 1. 1. as hath been said edd. 3-5: as I have said edd. 1, 2.

1. 2. the last sixty years edd. 3-5: these last fifty years ed. 2: these last forty years ed. 1.

11. 2-3. A practice, denominated_Ornamental Gardening edd. 4, 5 a practice, by a strange abuse of terms, denominated Ornamental Gardening edd. 2, 3: a practice which by a strange abuse of terms has been denominated Ornamental Gardening ed. 1.

1. 28. Every reader . P. 70, 1. 3 Grasmere edd. 2-5: The Vale of Grasmere is thus happily discriminated at the