Scout Scar looking down the Lyth Valley towards Arnside and Morecambe Bay

T.Shepherd after Thomas Allom (1835)

The cloudscape rather belies the calm way in which the ladies are sitting there with wide skirts and parasol. In real life they would probably have been blown bowling over the edge. The artist himself appears to have been hovering in mid air just above the void.
The river at its mouth is much wider than it is nowadays (though Allom seems to have been misled by his sketch into suggesting that it was the source of the Kent Estuary), and there is no sign of the causeway. See the next photograph for modern drainage and landfill.

Image © Meg Twycross

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