Note HZ — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 3)

Compare the Hon. Justice Coleridge's "Reminiscences" of a walk and conversation with Wordsworth (October 1836) in Easdale, where—at the pool, which many have identified as "Emma's Dell"—he said, "I have often thought what a solemn thing it would be could we have brought to our mind at once all the scenes of distress and misery which any spot, however beautiful and calm before us, has been witness to since the beginning." (See vol. ii. p. 156.)—ED.