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point of pastoral beauty; the rest are in sublimer style.
The leading parts of this picture, are over a rich cultivated
foreground, the town of Keswick seen under a hill, divided by
grass inclosures, its summits crowned with wood. More to the
east, Castle-rigg is sweetly laid out, and over it sweeps in
curves the road to Ambleside. Behind that, are seen the range of
vast mountains, descending from Helvellyn. On the western side,
the chaos of mountains heaped upon mountains, that secrete the
vale of Newland, make their appearance, and over them Cawsey-pike
presides. Leaving these, the eye meets a well wooded hill, on the
margin of the lake, shining in all the beauties of foliage, set
off with every advantage of form. Next a noble expanse of water,
broken just in the centre by a large island dressed in wood;
another, cultivated and fringed with trees, and a third with a
hut upon it, stript of its ornamental trees by the unfeeling hand
of avarice [1]. On the eastern side, a bold shore, steep and
wooded to the water's edge, is perceived, and above these, rise
daring rocks in every horrid shape. Also, a strange mixture of
wood
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