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Crag upon the left, broad, bold, and finely marked, rearing
its aged head to an enormous height, overlooks the embattled
projection of Shepherd's Crag on the right. These rocks,
exhibiting surfaces of grandeur, are finely contrasted and
beautifully enriched with oak, ash, and birch, of which some
are large and stately, others picturesque and wild,
fantastically expanding over, and impending from, and
partially obscuring rocks where vegetation could scarcely be
expected. There is a good inn where refreshment may be had
at a moderate charge. Further on is a scene greatly and
deservedly admired, we mean the bridge and village of
Grange, planted on the west banks of the Derwent; the
sweetly-wooded Holme Crag and other knolls swell above the
houses, over which masses of rock and precipitous crags
sublimely tower. The road here, without crossing the water,
enters Borrowdale. Along the western side of the lake are
two terrace-roads, the lower one of which is commonly used,
and commands a succession of scenes replete with
gratification. The retrospective views are into Borrowdale,
but in front are the islands studding the glassy mirror of
the lake, the finely-embayed coast about Water End and
Brandelow, with the deeply-indented shores of the rich
country beyond, and the town of Keswick overlooked by
Lonscale Fell, Skiddaw, and Blencathra. Passing by Derwent
Bank and Lodge with Foe Park, you come to Portinscale, a
small village on the gentle swell of a hill, which rises
from the lake and river. From
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