Excerpt from The English Lakes Giant's Grane; the Beacon, from the top of which the view of some of the distant lakes is very fine and extensive -the Giant's Caves, and a group of curious stones called Long Meg and her Daughters. At Old Penrith are the remains of a Roman station, and the seats of the nobility and gentry in the neighbourhood are numerous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.