If there is the darkness of the moss upon the one source of it, there is the darkness of the unsunned rock and crag upon the other, and that may be said of this wild and savage scene which Wordsworth says of the source of the Duddon some four or five miles distant, that "Desolation is thy patron Saint."

A walk along the Torver river, by the Rev. T. Ellwood, M.A., Rector of Torver.