Description of Sixty Studies, pp.14-15

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	page 14:- those who delight in boating, for the pier is not fifty yards from the house. This inn is something more than a mile and a half from Ambleside, and of course all worth attention in this (though not quite so conveniently) may be seen from Low Wood; and if that part of the lake about the Great Island may be more frequently, and perhaps commodiously, navigated from the Ferry House, and from Bowness, than from Low Wood and Ambleside, yet during the season, parties are daily sailing from the latter places to go round the Great Island, and to see the lake from the Station House. - An half day's ride usually taken by those who visit this country, is round the head of the lake and across the ferry; and may be performed, with equal convenience, from Ambleside, Hawkshead, the Ferry House, Bowness, and Low Wood. Bowness is six or seven miles from page 15:- Ambleside, and Windermere is beautiful from various high lands above Bowness, particularly from Brant fell, and the neighbourhood of Belman Ground. The ride from the foot of Windermere to Bowness is fine, and, if stationed at that place, it will be proper to cross the ferry and proceed by Graithwaite to Newby bridge, returning by Fellfoot, and Townhead; the traveller will thus have the best scenery before him on his return to his inn. The Ferry House. - It is but justice in speaking of the situation of this inn, to say, that for delicate, soft, and reposed scenery, it will seldom be excelled; abrupt objects rarely strike the eye - all is stillness and harmony. The Station House stands on a hill above the ferry, and was built by Mr. Brathwaite, from whom it was purchased by John Christian Curwen Esq. who likewise belongs to, and occasionally resides upon, the island. The
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