button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.56-57
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[twenty-]four miles, but over the bridges about twenty.
Between the head of the lake and Armbath, the property and residence of Mr. Jackson, is a fine view of the upper and lower waters, elegantly adorned on their margins with woods, and screened on the sides by the How and Raven Crag; Naddle Fell over the foot of the lake is succeeded by Saddleback.
On the road from Armbath to Raven Crag, the scenery is occasionally very fine, particularly looking on Helvellyn; and Raven Crag, from the point of a bold promontory, is a sublime object: About the outlet of the lake are many picturesque birch trees, and in all directions the distances from them are not uninteresting: The margin of the lake on the Dalehead side has its charms of wood and water; and Fisher Crag, twin brother to Raven Crag, is
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no bad object, when taken near the island called Bucks Holm.

  plate 29
  Legburthwaite Mill
No. 29.


MILL IN LEGBERTHWAITE.

Legberthwaite and St. John are the same valley.
Legberthwaite mill is twelve miles from Ambleside, on the road from that place to Threlkeld, which lies under Saddleback; the Threlkeld and Keswick roads dividing about the eleventh mile stone; the grand surface of rock above the mill, is called the rock of St. John.

  plate 30
  Derwent Water
No. 30.


DERWENT WATER, FROM CASTLERIGG.

Derwent Water, as has been before observed, is a fine lake, and its beauties will be obvious to all who may
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