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 | | In the south the county includes about one-half of the celebrated LAKE DISTRICT (q.v.), with the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike (3210 ft.), and the majority of the principal lakes, among which are Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite, Buttermere and Crummock Water, Ennerdale, Wastwater, and, on the boundary with Westmorland, Ullswater. |
 | | Liddel Water, joining this river from the north east from Liddisdale, forms a large part of the boundary with Scotland. |
 | | The older, a sedimentary slaty series of Ordovician age, the Skiddaw slates, surrounds Bassenthwaite, Saddleback, Crummock Water, Keswick and Cockermouth and the western end of Ennerdale Water. |
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