button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.10-11
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the eye are a part of the market-place; that over the end of the foot path is the Salutation inn - part of the exhibition-house appears between the fir trees - the ancient building in the centre of this view, belongs to Mr. Edward Partridge, who resides in that part of it which is nearest the Salutation; and beyond this building appears Green Bank, the property of Matthew Harrison, Esq. and residence of the Misses Knott. Rydal hall and Rydal mount may be discovered beyond the fir trees.

  plate 6
  Windermere lake
No. 6.


WINDERMERE.

Windermere is the largest lake in England, being twelve miles long; about the head it is considerably more than a mile in breadth, and between the head and the islands which are about half way down the water, it is seldom less than
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a mile; but it narrows gradually from the islands to Newby bridge, which lies at the foot of the lake.
Windermere may be conveniently navigated from all the inns around it, there being boats upon that lake belonging to the inns at Ambleside, Low Wood, Bowness, the ferry house, and Newby bridge. Ambleside is little more than half a mile from the head of the lake, and the other houses before spoken of, are all of them near it: the Ambleside boats are usually moored at a place called the landing, which is at the junction of the rivers Rothay and Brathay, not three quarters of a mile from the village. - Nothing can exceed, for beauty, the scenery between the landing and the head of the lake, and the wooded rocks which lie near the river's mouth combine with the Ambleside and Rydal mountains, so as to make excellent pictures - but the finest water view from the head of
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