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rearing his crested form in front, with Hallsteads on the
long low promontory, round which the lake doubles - the
woods of Gowbarrow adorning the right - and on the left,
Hallin, Birk, and Place Fells. The highest and last reach is
two miles long, spotted with a few rocky islands of small
importance. The steep and rugged front of Place Fell forms
its left boundary, and the precipitous rocks of Stybarrow,
oaken-crowned, start up out of the waters on the right, the
crags of St. Sunday, Helvellyn, and Fairfield, forming the
towering distance.
'Turn where we may, said I, we cannot err
In this delicious region.- Cultured slopes,
Wild tracts of forest-ground, and scattered groves,
And mountains bare, or clothed with ancient woods,
Surrounded us; and, as we held our way
Along the level of the grassy flood,
They ceased not to surround us; change of place,
From kindred features diversely combined,
Producing change of beauty ever new.'
On the whole, this water generally stands confessed the most
beautiful and grandest of all, affording the greatest
variety of views, in which, however, the sublime
unquestionably preponderates.
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In advancing up Ulles Water, we should recommend the south
or Westmorland side of the shore to be taken as far as How
Town, where a boat should be in readiness to carry you
across to Old Church, Watermillock, inasmuch as the views
are incomparably finer, both with regard to the foregrounds
and the combinations of the distance.
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