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1. 5. St. Michael's Mount: in Mount's Bay, east of Land's
End.
1. 8. Tamar: the river in Cornwall (Plymouth stands on
its estuary).
1. 9. Mendip'ssunless caves: the lead-mines, now exhausted,
in the Mendip Hills.
1. 10. Longleatfs towers : in Wiltshire.
Cranbourne : an abbey in the north of Dorset.
1. ii. Stonehenge : the famous Druid circle on Salisbury
Plain.
Beaulieu : a town on the borders of the New Forest,
Hampshire.
1. 13. Clifton Down : near Bristol.
1. 14. Whitehall Gate : in London.
L 15. Richmond Hill: just south of London.
P. 39, 1. i. The Tower : i.e. of London.
1. 7. Blackheath : now in London, near Greenwich.
1. 10. Hampstead: Hampstead Heath, London.
1. 13. Peak : the mountain at the south end of the
Pennine Chain.
Darwin : in north Lancashire.
1. 15. Malvern : hills in Worcestershire just west of the
Severn.
1. 16. Wrekln : a peak near Shrewsbury.
1. 17. Ely's stately fane: the cathedral of Ely, near
Cambridge.
L 19. Belvoir: (pron. Beevor) in Leicestershire, 7 miles
S.W. of Grantham.
P. 40, 1. i. Trent: a tributary of the Humber.
1. 2. Skiddaw : one of the chief peaks in Cumberland.
Gaunt's embattled pile : Lancaster castle, restored by
John of Gaunt.
Embattled: furnished with battlements.
Morte d'Arthur.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) was the son of a
clergyman and born at Somersby, in Lincolnshire.
At Trinity College, Cambridge, he made the acquaint-
ance of Arthur Henry Hallam, on whose death he'
wrote " In Memoriam." His early work, " Poems,
chiefly Lyrical" (1830), shows him already a master
of sound and rhythm, in the, tradition of Spenser and
Keats. In his later volumes, this power was increased
and combined with a growing vein of serious thought on
the social and religious cjuestions of the day. " The
Princess " (1847) dealt with the position and education
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