Note BX — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814

Blea Tarn. "The scene in which this small piece of water lies, suggested to the Author the following description (given in his poem of The Excursion), supposing the spectator to look down upon it, not from the road, but from one of its elevated sides." (See Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the District of the Lakes in his Prose Works.)—ED.