Duddon, is a view upwards, into the pass through which the river makes its way into the plain of Donnerdale.  The perpendicular rock on the right bears the ancient British name of THE PEN; the one opposite is called WALLA-BARROW CRAG, a name that occurs in other places to designate rocks of the same character.  The chaotic aspect of the scene is well marked by the expression of a stranger, who strolled out while dinner was preparing, and at his return, being asked by his host, ‘What way he had been wandering?’ replied, ’As far as it is finished!’

The bed of the Duddon is here strewn with large fragments of rocks fallen from aloft; which, as Mr. Green truly says, ’are happily adapted to the many-shaped waterfalls,’ (or rather water-breaks, for none of them are high,) ‘displayed in the short space of half a mile.’  That there is some hazard in frequenting these desolate places, I myself have had proof; for one night an immense mass of rock fell upon the very spot where, with a friend, I had lingered the day before.  ‘The concussion,’ says Mr. Green, speaking of the event, (for he also, in the practice of his art, on that day sat exposed for a still longer time to the same peril,) ‘was heard, not without alarm, by the neighbouring shepherds.’  But to return to Seathwaite Churchyard:  it contains the following inscription: 

     In memory of the Reverend Robert Walker, who died the 25th of June,
     1802, in the 93d year of his age, and 67th of his curacy at
     Seathwaite.

     ’Also, of Anne his wife, who died the 28th of January, in the 93d
     year of her age.’

In the parish-register of Seathwaite Chapel, is this notice: 

     ’Buried, June 28th, the Rev. Robert Walker.  He was curate of
     Seathwaite sixty-six years.  He was a man singular for his
     temperance, industry, and integrity.’

This individual is the Pastor alluded to, in the eighteenth Sonnet, as a worthy compeer of the country parson of Chaucer, &c.  In the seventh book of the Excursion, an abstract of his character is given, beginning—­

    ’A Priest abides before whose life such doubts
    Fall to the ground;—­’

and some account of his life, for it is worthy of being recorded, will not be out of place here.

322. Memoir of the Rev. Robert Walker.

(’Pastor,’ in Book vii. of ‘The Excursion.’)

In the year 1709, Robert Walker was born at Under-crag, in Seathwaite; he was the youngest of twelve children.  His eldest brother, who inherited the small family estate, died at Under-crag, aged ninety-four, being twenty-four years older than the subject of this Memoir, who was born of the same mother.  Robert was a sickly infant; and, through his boyhood and youth, continuing to be of delicate frame and tender health, it was deemed best, according to the country phrase, to breed him a scholar; for it was not likely