 Other travellers were perhaps less given to hyperbole.Celia Fiennes, for example, who made her journey between 1684 and 1703, ("Through England on a side saddle"), was more matter-of fact and more a reporter of what she actually saw – giving us "the last truly unconditioned reflex to Cumberland landscape", according to Nicholson.However, she still talked of "the desart and barren rocky hills" of Westmorland.