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Page 133:-
of Wythburn manor, Low-Wray, Brimhim park, Brathay,
the Finery Heath at Cunza, &c. all which
are now sold to different people.
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book 5
chapter 2
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CHAP. II.
Of Winandermere Lake, -- Crowgarth, the Skulls there,
&c. -- Hogarth, family of, -- Remarkable Strong Man, --
The Curwen Family. -- Large Island, with Pennant's account
of it, -- Bowness, village of, -- Carriers arms in the
Church window, -- Mr Young's Description of the Lake, --
Fish and Fisheries, -- Return to Ambleside by Slape
Cragg.
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Windermere lake
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WE will now leave Ambleside, the situation of which
(see plate X.) and taking the Lake Winandermere on
the right, travel along a pleasant road to Low wood,
a convenient inn, where boats are kept for the use of the
curious traveller; otherwise I would take boat at Ambleside,
(which I rather commend) and sailing down the Lake land at
Crowgarth. Here the artist will have the best
landscape near this Lake, though it does not take in one
single island; yet this is the only place where the view
closes on each side, and the rugged broken tops of
Langdale-Pikes, Hard-knott, and Wry-nose, are
seen most distinct, and to the best advantage, being any
where else at too great a distance. Mr Hannan took this view
from a hill between Miller-ground and Rayrigg,
but the distance and elevation of the station took away the
bold grandeur of the back ground, which I always think
should be high; he also wanted the sloping woods and fields,
with the white cottages of Wreay, with many other beautiful
objects. Indeed if you could anchor in six fathoms water
between the Sand-beds and High Wreay, opposite
Ecclerigg-Cragg, (see plate X.) and the day should be calm,
you would have the advantage of Clappersgate, and
Rydale-Hall, at the Base of huge wooded mountains,
and part of Ambleside. This situation is rather too
low, but not much: I took a drawing there once, (but have
lost it) some of the company fired a gun whilst I was making
my draught, and it being a calm day, I catched the thin
smoak as it had ascended about half way up the mountains,
which had a very pretty effect.
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Calgarth
Philipson Family
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Whilst the landscape-painter is here exercising his pencil,
let the antiquarian go to the farm-house at
Crow-garth, alias Calf-garth, alias
Cold-garth, now commonly called Caw-garth, be
it which it will. Here are, in alto relievo over the
dining-room fire-place, two good devices, remarkably well
executed, (in oak-wood) one of Sampson sleeping upon
Delilah's lap, whilst the Philistines are cutting off his
hair. (Judges, chap. xiii.) The other, a representation of
Jeptha meeting his daughter, with harp and timbrel, &c.
after his rash vow, (Judges, chap. xi.) In the parlour, upon
the ceiling, are several devices, particularly the Wiverne,
which, according to Guillim, p.262. is the arms of Drake.
This estate belonged many years to a family of the name of
Phillipson. Mr Machel says, the first he meets with was
Robert Philipson, in King Henry the III's. time. The estate
continued in the name and family till the year 1714, when it
ended in daughters, who sold the estate to Mr Taylor; so it
must have been in the name and family five hundred years: A
long time, indeed, considering the intestine feuds and
quarrels in these parts! The original name seems to have
been Therlwall, (so it appears to me that Mr Machel must
have been mistaken, when he calls them Philipsons as late as
Henry the III's. time,) as appears by the grant of Robert
Cook, Esq; Clarencieux, King of arms in 1581, where he says,
"For as much as Rowland Philipson, alias Therlwall of
Calgarth in the county of Westmorland;" and further on says,
"which Rowland was descended of a younger brother, forth of
the house of Therlwall in the county of Northumberland;
which said Rowland, by reason of the Christian name of one
of his
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"ancestors,
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gazetteer links
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-- "Ambleside" -- Ambleside
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-- "Crowgarth" -- Calgarth Hall
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-- Low Wood Hotel
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-- (station, Calgarth)
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