One thing that puzzles me: Coleridge's line 'On my left the two tarns and another precipice twice as lofty as the other.' Where on any ascent of Helvellyn would you have two tarns on the left, or the right for that matter? Satellite photo shows a tiny pool next to Red Tarn, which would be on the left going up Swirral Edge, but I must have been over the Edges dozens of times and never even noticed it.
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One thing that puzzles me: Coleridge's line 'On my left the two tarns and another precipice twice as lofty as the other.' Where on any ascent of Helvellyn would you have two tarns on the left, or the right for that matter? Satellite photo shows a tiny pool next to Red Tarn, which would be on the left going up Swirral Edge, but I must have been over the Edges dozens of times and never even noticed it.