button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.8-9
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beauties of Ambleside are numerous and highly interesting, as all will see who shall ascend to Skelgill; or visit Troutbeck, by the public road from Ambleside or Low Wood; Windermere; the vales of Great and Little Langdale; the various accesses to Loughrigg Fell, and tracing the lines upon that fell best calculated for the exhibition of its various panoramic scenes; the road from Rothay Bridge to Grasmere church, keeping the river and lakes on the right hand; Stock Gill; Scandale Beck; Rydal: the water-falls and park at Rydal; Sweden Bridge by Scandale lane, returning on the opposite side of the stream, and over the bridge at Nookend to Ambleside; Wansfell Pike; Fairfield; and various other charming places in which this district so luxuriantly abounds.
Derwent water is a fine lake, and there are many grand, romantic, and beautiful scenes near Keswick; but
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'till Ambleside and Keswick shall be more equally and generally known, no popular decision can with propriety be given in favour of either the one or the other place. The writer, not only for visual gratification, but for study, prefers Ambleside, after having with great attention examined both districts; and under the influence of this feeling, he settled himself at Ambleside.
The Gale is a field above that in which the fir trees stand as we enter on the Kendal road, the more embodied part of the village, and the most pleasant way of approaching this field on leaving the inns, is on the public road, by the fir trees and Gale house, entering the Gale field at the back of that house.
The scene in nature, from the Gale, comprehends more than half a circle, and the part which is here chosen, is looking towards the park and mountains of Rydal; the buildings nearest
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