In my own fancy, I have fixed its rise near the noted Shire Stones placed at the meeting point of the counties Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire.

They stand by the wayside, on the top of the Wrynose Pass, and it used to be reckoned a proud thing to say, that by touching them at the same time with feet and hands, one had been in three counties at once.

At what point of its course the stream takes the name of Duddon, I do not know.

I first became acquainted with the Duddon, as I have good reason to remember, in early boyhood.

Upon the banks of the Derwent, I had learnt to be very fond of angling.