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[south-]west of its foot, the lake is of an irregular
figure, and composed of three unequal reaches, the middle of
which is somewhat larger than the northern one; the shortest
is seen from the inn at Patterdale, and is not half the
length of either of the others: Ulls Water is less unequal
in its breadth than the other lakes, it is in many places
not more than half a mile across, but seldom exceeds three
quarters; it is less than Windermere, but larger than the
rest of the English lakes.
Ulls Water lies engulphed at the feet of majestic mountains,
which rise sublimely from the valley: Place Fell descends
shivering into the lake almost perpendicularly from a vast
height; it skirts the lake from Birk Fell Force higher than
its head. The opposite mountains are less uniform, their
summits are removed to various and greater distances from
the water, and
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the rocks project from their surfaces in a style of superior
grandeur.
Were these mountains divested of wood, they would exhibit a
vastness and sublimity rivalled only by those of Wast Water.
Nothing can exceed the dresses and the decorations of this
sublimity; the whole space from Gow-barrow to the inn at
Patterdale is one rich scene of vegetation; oak, ash, birch,
alder, and other trees of stately growth, and in the wildest
luxuriance, undulating, and impending over the rocky
protuberances every where starting from the mountains,
render this the loveliest ride amongst the lakes.
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