Cataract of Lodore
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"The Cataract of Lodore" is a poem by the English poet Robert Southey which describes the Lodore Falls on the Watendlath Beck just above Derwent Water in Cumbria. (To describe them as a cataract is considerable poetic licence.) The poem is a masterpiece of onomatopoeia, employing some of the most clever and evocative language ever used to describe a natural feature.
The Powell Expedition named the Gates of Lodore after this poem.
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