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CONTENTS.


DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION FOR THE TOURIST.

Windermere. - Ambleside. - Coniston. - Ulpha Kirk. - Road from Ambleside to Keswick. - Grasmere. - The Vale of Keswick. - Buttermere and Crummock. - Loweswater. - Wastdale. - Ullswater, with its tributary Streams. - Haweswater, &c. -- Page i.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENERY OF THE LAKES.


SECTION FIRST.


VIEW OF THE COUNTRY AS FORMED BY NATURE.

Vales diverging from a common Centre. - Effect of Light and Shadow as dependant upon the Position of the Vales. - Mountains, - their Substance, - Surfaces, - and Colours. - Winter Colouring. - The Vales, - Lakes, - Islands, - Tarns, - Woods, - Rivers, - Climate, - Night. -- p.1

SECTION SECOND.


ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY AS AFFECTED BY ITS INHABITANTS.

Retrospect. - Primitive Aspect. - Roman and British Antiquities. - Feudal Tenantry, - their Habitations and Enclosures. - Tenantry reduced in Number by the Union of the Two Crowns. - State of Society after that Event. - Cottages, - Bridges, - Places of Worship, - Parks and Mansions. - General Picture of Society. -- 37
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