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[Crow]holme islands break the line in this noble expanse of
water. The eastern shore discovers much cultivation; and the
succeeding hills are much diversified, and strangely tumbled
about. Some are laid out in grass inclosures, other cut with
hedges, and fringed with trees; one is crowned with wood, and
skirted with the sweetest verdure; another waves with corn; and
the whole is a mixture of objects that constitute the most
pleasing of rural scenes.- The upper grounds are wild, and
pastured with flocks.
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STATION III. From the north side of the island, the views are
more sublime and vast. The lake is here seen both ways.- To the
south, an expanse of water spreads on both hands, and behind you,
you see a succession of promontories, with variety of shore,
patched with islands, and the whole encircled by an amphitheatre
of distant hills, rising in noble style. Turning to the north,
the view is over a reach of lake, six miles in length, and above
one in breadth, interrupted with scattered islands of different
figures and dress; which, on a calm day, may be seen distinctly
reflected from the limpid surface of the water that surrounds
them. The environs exhibit all the grandeur of Alpine scenes. The
conic summits of Langdale-pikes and Hill-bell; the broken ridge
of
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