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The mountains on the immediate head of the water are not so
steep as those which border it on the sides half way down,
but they are rich in wood. St. Sunday, or St. Sundian Crag,
swells sublimely above them, and is a fine object from many
parts of the valley; from Gow-barrow on one side, and Place
Fell on the other side of the lake, the mountains gradually
diminish into little hills, and from a gigantic ruggedness,
to a soft and verdant meadow and pasturage.
Those who see Ulls Water from Ambleside, and have only one
day to spare for that purpose, must go upon the lake, and
not neglect the Purse, which is a little bay near the house
called Blawike, House Holm, and Lyulphs Tower, from each of
which places the head of the lake, with the intermediate
matter, is in grand arrangement.
From Lyulphs Tower the party may
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return to the inn at Patterdale on foot, but if in a
carriage, it must meet the party at the tower; in preference
to this, none must be persuaded to adopt a retrograde
movement. At Powley Bridge, which is at the foot of the
lake, there is a respectable inn: Powley Bridge is seven
miles north of the foot of
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HAWS WATER,
which is three miles long: it lies deeply intrenched among
the mountains; its banks are sprinkled with trees as wildly
as if shed from the heavens: footmen (not the party coloured
gentlemen, for they would scorn such meanness) may make
charming excursions, by passing from Kendal through Long
Sleddale, over Harter Fell, by Chapel Hill, to Haws Water;
and from thence by way of Powley Bridge, Ulls Water, and
Patterdale to Ambleside - there is plea-
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