button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.12-13
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Windermere is about half a mile down the lake, having the boat at an equal distance from the eastern and the western shores. This is that anchorage, were it possible to anchor here, from which the mountains of Coniston, Little and Great Langdale, Loughrigg, Rydal, Ambleside, and Troutbeck, the high grounds of Applethwaite, Orrest, Bowness, and Cartmel fell, and the lands above Wray, as from one station on the water, are seen to the greatest advantage.
Brathay house and Old Brathay, the property of Henry Law, Esq. the former the residence of John Harden, Esq. and the latter of Charles Lloyd, Esq. are in Lancashire, and compose a part of the Langdale picture: the Westmorland houses beginning with Clappersgate cottage, Mrs. Freeman's, which with Croft lodge and its fine grounds, the property of Miss Pritchard, are situate under Loughrigg fell.
page 13:-
Ambleside in a line with Scandale fell, exhibits various detached, and pleasantly planted houses, several of them built by Robert Partridge, Esq. and one of them, Covey Cottage, is his residence. Near the Kendal road and about two hundred yards from the head of the lake, stands a good house, the property of William Newton, Esq. who resides there; and nearer the lake, the comfortable habitation of that respectable yeoman, Mr. Thomas Jackson.
Dove Nest, belonging to Mrs. Benson, but at present inhabited by Edward Pedder, Esq. who has greatly improved it, next claims our attention, and Low Wood which appears close to the water, is the last house in Ambleside. - Bowness is the last cluster of houses observed on this side the water; on the Lancashire side are High and Low Kay.
Low Wood is a charming place for
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