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addenda
ADDENDA.
IT having been judged, that the principal detached pieces which have appeared on the subject of the Lakes, by esteemed writers, if collected together, might accommodate the reader, and contribute to the chief purport of this manual,- they are here subjoined, along with some other connected articles, and similar descriptions, which relate to the same country.

ARTICLE I.

Dr Brown
  Keswick

DR. BROWN'S LETTER, DESCRIBING THE VALE AND LAKE OF KESWICK.
IN my way to the north, from Hagley, I passed through Dovedale; and, to say the truth, was disappointed in it.- When I came to Buxton, I visited another or two of their romantic scenes; but these are inferior to Dovedale. They are but poor miniatures of Keswick; which exceeds them more in grandeur than I can give you to imagine; and more, if possible, in beauty than in grandeur.
Instead of the narrowing strip of valley which is seen at Dovedale, you have at Keswick a vast amphitheatre, in circumfe-
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