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John Gandy, Esq., who has chosen a charming site for his
abode; and a little further, on the same side of the road,
is the pretty villa-residence of Miss Yates.
There are villas on either side the road, on almost every
favourable spot, all the way to Bowness. The road past the
college grounds leaves the other one to be called by the
inevitable title of 'the old road.' We pass rows of
lodging-houses; and then we see to the right the spot where
the college is to be: and to the left Ellerthwaite, the
residence of Mr. Geo. H. Gardner; and then, to the right,
the cottage of Mylnbeck, the residence of the Misses Watson,
daughters of the late bishop of Llandaff: a common house in
its aspect towards the road, but, as seen over the wall,
very pretty in its garden-front. The next gate on the left
is the entrance to the Craig, built by Sir Thomas Pasley,
and now inhabited by W. R. Greg, Esq. Below this, the houses
begin to thicken about the entrance to Bowness. Among them,
a road to the left leads to one of the most charming points
of view in the neighbourhood,- a hill named Biscut How,
crested with rocks, which afford as fine a station as the
summit of Elleray for a view of the entire lake and its
shores.
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