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MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.
MR. WEST, in his well-known Guide to the Lakes, recommends,
as the best season for visiting this country, the interval
from the beginning of June to the end of August; and, the
two latter months being a time of vacation and leisure, it
is almost exclusively in these that strangers resort hither.
But that season is by no means the best; the colouring of
the mountains and woods, unless where they are diversified
by rocks, is of too unvaried a green; and, as a large
portion of the valleys is allotted to hay-grass, some want
of variety is found there also. The meadows, however, are
sufficiently enlivened after hay-making begins, which is
much later than in the southern part of the island. A
stronger objection is rainy weather, setting in sometimes at
this period with a vigour, and continuing with a
perseverance, that may remind the disappointed and dejected
traveller
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