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Page 193:-
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addenda
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ADDENDA.
IT having been judged, that the principal detached pieces which
have appeared on the subject of the Lakes, by esteemed writers,
if collected together, might accommodate the reader, and
contribute to the chief purport of this manual,- they are here
subjoined, along with some other connected articles, and similar
descriptions, which relate to the same country.
ARTICLE I.
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Dr Brown
Keswick
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DR. BROWN'S LETTER, DESCRIBING THE VALE AND LAKE OF KESWICK.
IN my way to the north, from Hagley, I passed through Dovedale;
and, to say the truth, was disappointed in it.- When I came to
Buxton, I visited another or two of their romantic scenes; but
these are inferior to Dovedale. They are but poor miniatures of
Keswick; which exceeds them more in grandeur than I can give you
to imagine; and more, if possible, in beauty than in grandeur.
Instead of the narrowing strip of valley which is seen at
Dovedale, you have at Keswick a vast amphitheatre, in circumfe-
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