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Page 112:-
and rock succeed one another to the southern extremity of the
lake, where the grand pyramidal Castle-crag commands the whole.
The western shore is indented with wooded promontories down to
Foe-park, the hill first described, on the lower margin of the
lake, and the mountains all around rise immediately from its
edge, but those that form the outline to the south are very much
broken, and hence more picturesque.- These parts of the scene,
Mr. Gray says, are the sweetest he ever saw, in point of pastoral
beauty. But whoever takes this view from Ormathwaite, in a field
on the western side of the house, will be convinced of Mr. Gray's
loss in want of information. For the very spot he stood upon
there is in the centre of the fore-ground, and makes a principal
object in the pastoral part of the picture he praises so highly.
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Derwent Water by boat
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Sailing round the lake opens a new province for Landscape. Mr.
Gray neglected it, and Mr. Mason thought he judged well. Messrs.
Young and Pennant tried it, and admired it. Dr. Brown prefers
sailing, and advises landing on every promontory, and anchoring
in every bay [1]. The transparent
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[1]
The whole of Dr. Brown's descriptive letter is inserted in the
Addenda, Article I.
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-- station, Crosthwaite Vicarage
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-- station, Derwent Water by boat
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