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'But the opposite, or northern view, is in all respects a strong
and beautiful contrast. Skiddaw shows its vast base, and,
bounding all that part of the vale, rises gently to a height that
sinks the neighbouring hills; opens a pleasing front, smooth and
verdant, smiling over the country like a gentle generous lord,
while the fells of Borrowdale frown on it like a hardened tyrant.
'Each boundary of the lake seems to take part with the
extremities, and emulate their appearance: the southern varies in
rocks of different forms, from the tremendous precipice of
Lady's-leap, the broken front of Falcon's-nest, to the more
distant concave curvature of Lowdore, an extent of precipitous
rock, with trees vegetating from their numerous fissures, and the
foam of a cataract precipitating amidst.
'The entrance to Borrowdale divides the scene, and the northern
side alters into milder forms; a salt-spring, once the property
of the monks of Furness, trickles along the shore; hills (the
resort of shepherds) with downy fronts, and lofty summits,
succeed, with wood clothing their bases to the water's edge.
'Not far from hence the environs appear to the navigator of the
lake to the greatest
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