Note 21 — THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN. A LEGEND OF THE VALE OF ST. JOHN.
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The small lake called Scales-tarn, which lies so deeply embosomed in the recesses of the huge mountain called Saddleback, more poetically Blencathara, is of such great depth, and so completely hidden from the sun, that it is said its beams never reach it, and that the reflection of the stars may be seen on its surface at mid-day.