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from the water's edge. The extremity of some inclosures are
picturesquely seen just over the wood, with part of a cottage.
The village of Wythop lies behind it in an aerial site. A grass
inclosure, scooped in the bosom of the hanging wood, and under it
a cot, on the very brink of the lake, stands sweetly. The views
downward are fine; the banks high and woody to the bridge, of
which two arches are in sight. Behind it a white house is
charmingly placed. More to the right, at the head of a gentle
slope, in the very centre of view, stands Armathwaite, winged
with groves; and behind it, at a small distance, are deep hanging
woods, and over them, spreading far to the right and left, a
great reach of cultivated grounds. This termination is rich and
pleasing to the eye. The view to the south is, on the upper lake,
much softened by distance. In the afternoon, if the sun shine,
the appearance of the silver-grey rocks, glistening through the
green woods that hang on their fissures, is most elegant. Behind,
an appendix of Skiddaw rises in rude form; and over it, this
chief of mountains frowns in Alpine Majesty.- This view is also
well seen from the house of Scareness.
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