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[magnifi]cent view of the two higher reaches of the Lake.
Ara-force thunders down the Ghyll on the left, at a small
distance from the road. If Ullswater be approached from
Penrith, a mile and a half brings you to the winding vale of
Eamont, and the prospects increase in interest till you
reach Patterdale; but the first four miles along Ullswater
by this road are comparatively tame; and in order to see the
lower part of the Lake to advantage, it is necessary to go
round by Pooley Bridge, and to ride at least three miles
along the Westmorland side of the water, towards Martindale.
The views, especially if you ascend from the road into the
fields, are magnificent; yet this is only mentioned that the
transient Visitant may know what exists; for it would be
inconvenient to go in search of them. They who take this
course of three or four miles on foot, should have a
boat in readiness at the end of the walk, to carry them
across to the Cumberland side of the Lake, near Old Church,
thence to pursue the road upwards to Patterdale. The
Church-yard Yew-tree still survives at Old Church, but there
are no remains of a Place of Worship, a New Chapel having
been erected in a more central situation, which Chapel was
consecrated by the then Bishop of Carlisle, when on his way
to crown Queen Elizabeth, he being the only Prelate who
would undertake the office. It may be here mentioned that
Bassenthwaite Chapel yet stands in a bay as sequestered as
the Site of Old Church;
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