“Passed two of Wallace’s caves.  There is scarcely a noted glen in
  Scotland that has not a cave for Wallace, or some other hero.”

Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘Recollections of a Tour made in Scotland in 1803’ (Sunday, August 21).—­Ed.]

[Footnote T:  Compare ‘L’Allegro’, l. 137.—­Ed.]

[Footnote U:  Compare ‘Paradise Lost’, iii. 17.—­Ed.]

[Footnote V:  The Derwent, on which the town of Cockermouth is built, where Wordsworth was born on the 7th of April 1770.—­Ed.]

[Footnote W:  The towers of Cockermouth Castle.—­Ed.]

[Footnote X:  The “terrace walk” is at the foot of the garden, attached to the old mansion in which Wordsworth’s father, law-agent of the Earl of Lonsdale, resided.  This home of his childhood is alluded to in ’The Sparrow’s Nest’, vol. ii. p. 236.  Three of the “Poems, composed or suggested during a Tour, in the Summer of 1833,” refer to Cockermouth.  They are the fifth, sixth, and seventh in that series of Sonnets:  and are entitled respectively ‘To the River Derwent’; ’In sight of the Town of Cockermouth’; and the ’Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle’.  It was proposed some time ago that this house—­which is known in Cockermouth as “Wordsworth House,”—­should be purchased, and since the Grammar School of the place is out of repair, that it should be converted into a School, in memory of Wordsworth.  This excellent suggestion has not yet been carried out—­Ed.]

[Footnote Y:  The Vale of Esthwaite.—­Ed.]

[Footnote Z:  He went to Hawkshead School in 1778.—­Ed.]

[Footnote a:  About mid October the autumn crocus in the garden “snaps” in that district.—­Ed.]

[Footnote b:  Possibly in the Claife and Colthouse heights to the east of Esthwaite Water; but more probably the round-headed grassy hills that lead up and on to the moor between Hawkshead and Coniston, where the turf is always green and smooth.—­Ed.]

[Footnote c:  Yewdale:  see next note.  “Cultured Vale” exactly describes the little oat-growing valley of Yewdale.—­Ed.]

[Footnote d:  As there are no “naked crags” with “half-inch fissures in the slippery rocks” in the “cultured vale” of Esthwaite, the locality referred to is probably the Hohne Fells above Yewdale, to the north of Coniston, and only a few miles from Hawkshead, where a crag, now named Raven’s Crag, divides Tilberthwaite from Yewdale.  In his ’Epistle to Sir George Beaumont’, Wordsworth speaks of Yewdale as a plain

             ’spread
  Under a rock too steep for man to tread,
  Where sheltered from the north and bleak north-west
  Aloft the Raven hangs a visible nest,
  Fearless of all assaults that would her brood molest.’

Ed.]

[Footnote e:  Dr. Cradock suggested the reading “rocky cove.”  Rocky cave is tautological, and Wordsworth would hardly apply the epithet to an ordinary boat-house.—­Ed.]