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Page 84:-
Now again take boat at Hardendale-Knott or
Manesty-Nook: a little below Manesty-Nook was
got, within these few years, a considerable quantity of
lead-ore, but is not now wrought. Sailing along the side of
Branley-Park, view the several delightful creeks and bays:
when the sun has left this side of the Lake in the
afternoon, the views on the other side are much more
beautiful. This estate was lately purchased by Lord William
Gordon, who is building a handsome house at Water-end, Mr
Pocklington has also built a house at Finkle.
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Derwent Water
islands
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I must now give an account of the remaining islands of this
Lake; which I shall do in the same order that they meet the
eye as sailing downwards.
The first is Rampsholm; so called, I suppose, from
the ramp or rampione, a species of the leek, which it
produces in great abundance; it has a few trees of little or
no value upon it.
The next that presents itself is St Herbert's; so
called from that Romish Saint who had an hermitage there:
This island, (upon which some remains of his cell are yet to
be seen) was given to him by St Cuthbert, (see Burn and
Nicholson,) but is now the property of Sir Gilfred Lawson,
Baronet.
We next come to Vicar's Island, now called, (from its
proprietor) Pocklington's Island. This is one of the
largest, and is beautifully ornamented by its spirited
owner. On the western side he has built a fort, on which he
has a battery, as before mentioned: on the South side of the
fort is a druidical temple, exactly facing Keswick; and
close to the shore is the appearance of a chapel,
which consists of only one wall and a steeple: the
steeple contains a room, not furnished with bells, but good
roast-beef and claret; where the worthy Proprietor very
facetiously said he might, he thought, always find more
priests ready to attend, than at their own churches by the
tinkling of bells. - The traveller will now land at
Crow-Park, and conclude one day's excursion.
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Bottom Wind
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Before we leave the Lake, I must beg my reader's patience
for a few words concerning that extraordinary phaenomenon,
the Bottom-Wind: This, so far as I know, is not
observed in any other of our English Lakes, and is attended
with many singular and inexplicable circumstances. In a
perfectly calm day, the surface of the Lake will be agitated
in a violent manner; the swell is quite regular, and always
in the same direction, viz. from West to East; yet I have
been at the very entrance of Borrowdale when one of these
bottom-winds began, and felt not so much wind as would have
extinguished a candle: sometimes they scarcely continue an
hour, at other times almost a whole day, and are often,
(tho' not always) the forerunners of a storm. These
phaenomena I have elsewhere declared myself unable to
explain: Should, however, any of my readers be able to
accomplish the task, he will confer a singular favour upon
me by communicating his solution.
We now once more arrive at Keswick, where I hope the
fatigues and pleasure of our day will have the same effects
upon every traveller they had upon me, viz. procure
them a good appetite and sound rest.
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Newlands Valley
rain
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Some of the curious who visit this country wish to see
Buttermere, Cromark-Water, and Lowes-Water;
the road by which they must travel to these lyes up
Newlands. I do not admire this journey through roads
where a carriage can hardly travel amidst deserts: In many
places the traveller cannot even meet with shelter from the
storms, which sometimes come on extremely sudden. When I was
viewing these places, I was honoured with the most
unexpected pop-visit from a thunder-shower I ever
experienced; the rain seemed perfectly at home, and
as such, came as suddenly, and with as little ceremony, as
the shower which Xantippe is said to have discharged
upon the head of her patient husband. I had not time to look
about me, - the day had been perfectly clear,
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gazetteer links
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-- "Branley Park" -- Brandelhow Park
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-- "Vicar's Island" -- Derwent Isle
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-- "Derwentwater" -- Derwent Water
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-- "Rampsholm" -- Rampsholme Island
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-- Borrowdale and Buttermere
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-- "St Herbert's Island" -- St Herbert's Island
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