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formed in the midst of the group will be observed. There
Wast Water lies.
On the right, a rude new road at length appears, tending
towards a wooded ravine. That ravine is Stanley Ghyll, and
at its head is the waterfall. The key may be had at the
farmhouse of Dalegarth; and there perhaps, or in the glen,
the party from Fellfoot may be found to have arrived first.
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The Stanley Ghyll fall has much the character of Ara Force;
and the immediate surroundings may perhaps be rivalled by
other waterfalls in the district. But the glen itself is
indisputably the finest in the region; and it is scarcely
possible to say too much of the view from the Moss-house on
the steep, which should certainly be the first point of
view. From hence the eye commands the whole ravine, whose
sides are feathered with wood from base to ridge. The fall
is between two crags,- the one bare, the other crowned with
pines; and if there is a slant of sunlight between them, it
gives the last finish of beauty to the chasm. The most
modern element in the scene, the young larches, cannot
offend the eye,- so well as their vivid green is
intermingled with the well-grown beech, oak, birch, and
hollies, of a soberer hue. There is a bridge below, descried
from the moss-house, which will tempt the stranger to find
his way down; and there he will meet with two more, by means
of which he will reach the fall. Here, among a wilderness of
ferns and wild flowers, he may sit in the cool, damp abyss,
watching the fall of waters into their clear rock-basin,
till his ear is satisfied with their dash and flow, and his
eye with
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