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plate 12
'Cherry Tree'
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No. 12.
CHERRY TREE, STOCK GILL.
By some unaccountable mistake, the large tree in this print
is called a cherry tree, but is in reality a species of wych
elm. - The wych elm and the wild cherry tree grow
luxuriantly and to a prodigious size on the banks of this
little river.
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plate 13
Stock Ghyll
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No. 13.
STOCK GILL, AMBLESIDE.
This view is about one hundred yards below the water-fall,
and like the foregoing three, is down the stream.
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plate 14
Stock Ghyll
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No. 14.
STUDY IN STOCK GILL.
This study of rocks and trees was made thirty of forty yards
below the foot of the force.
page 25:-
The ramification of such trees as hang on the steep banks of
rivers are usually wildly undulating, but straightness is
the peculiar character of such as grow near the margins or
out of the beds of rivers.
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plate 15
Stockghyll Force
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No. 15.
STOCK GILL FORCE.
The beauties of this admired water-fall are in a great
degree lost to the generality of visitors, because they only
see it from the foot-path, skirting the top of a bank which
rises to a great height, and almost perpendicularly from the
bottom of the channel; and the spectator looks down upon the
scene, rather than upwards or horizontally; his view of the
water is likewise considerably impeded by wood, of which
there is a redundancy.
The finest views are from the bottom, and at some places a
little above it;
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