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vol.1 p.186
and pleasing to the imagination, when it's rocks,
precipices, and woods became a fore-ground; as it appeared
from the northern point of the lake, when we examined it in
a more removed point of view.
Nor do these rocky shores recommend themselves to us only as
fore-grounds. We found them every where the happiest
situations for obtaining the most picturesque views of the
lake. The inexperienced conductor, shewing you the lake,
carries you to some garish stand, where the eye may range
far and wide. And such a view indeed is well calculated, as
we have just seen, to obtain a general idea of the whole.
But he, who is in quest of the picturesque scenes of the
lake, must travel along the rough side-screens that adorn
it; and catch it's beauties, as they arise in smaller
portions - it's little bays, and winding shores - it's deep
recesses, and hanging promontories - it's garnished rock,
and distant mountains. These are, in general, the
picturesque scenes, which it affords.
Part of this mountain is known by the name of Lady's-rake,
from a tradition, that a young lady of Derwentwater family,
in the time of some public disturbance, escaped a pursuit
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