button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.6-7
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right is Raven Crag, that in the distance Enfoot.
From the roads intersecting each other in Yewdale and its vicinity may be collected useful materials for the use of landscape painting; but that road is thought to be the most valuable for this purpose which leads from Coniston church through Yewdale and Tilberthwaite to Ambleside. The slate quarries in Tilberthwaite are well worth the attention of strangers.

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  Rothay Bridge
No. 4.


ROTHAY BRIDGE, NEAR AMBLESIDE.

This bridge which spans the Rothay, is half a mile from Ambleside, on the road to Hawkshead, and Whitehaven, over the mountains Hardknot and Wrynose: - and this view is made on the road from Kendal to Whitehaven, over the above mountains, and joins that from Ambleside at the foot of the
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bridge. The Rydal fells, (the mountains here are generally called fells) beginning with Nab Scar, and ending with Fairfield, close the scene.

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  Ambleside
No. 5.


AMBLESIDE FROM THE GALE.

Ambleside and Keswick are the places principally from which the English lakes, and the mountains and vallies lying around them, are visited.
The population of Keswick is, at least, double that of Ambleside, and the inns and lodging houses are proportionately numerous: there is likewise an activity and industry on the part of those whose business it is to shew, and to describe the surrounding country to strangers, which have been the means of rendering it more known, and consequently, as yet, more valued as a station, than Ambleside; but this value exists not in reality, for the
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