Black Beck Tarn on Haystacks (scan from Aug 1992)

The Tarns...sometimes found in the vales but numerous among the mountains...Lying as they do in the solitary recesses of the lofty mountains, at the foot of steep precipices, huge fragments of rock treed on their shores, and Heath-clad promontories dividing their black sullen waters, they excite in the mind feelings of melancholy and awful solemnity."

The Lake District...Rev William Ford (1847)