button to main menu  Beauties of the North, p.7
button title page
button previous page button next page
page 7:-
of Melbreak, called Ling Crag; about two or three hundred yards up the side of Melbreak, beginning at the crag, this scene will open and enchant by its singular beauty.
Contrasted lines, so elegant and unaffected, are seldom seen in art, and rarely found in nature; the soft bosom of the lake of Crummock lies immediately under the eye, beyond which a valley luxuriantly fertile, and adorned with an endless variety of trees, separates this lake from that of Buttermere, which is seen at the distance of three or four miles; on the right, the one common base of the four conical mountains, mentioned by Mr. West, skirts the valley, the opposite side of which is the ground-work of the celebrated Robinson, a mountain not seen in the quantity here taken; at the head, the lands of Gatesgarth, and beyond them the lofty Honister, which, like a huge tower, seems planted here by nature, for the defence of the valley below; the high lands of Borrowdale terminate the view.

No.II.


Six Views, 2l. 2s. the Set - singly, 8s.


BRIDGE AND INN, AT BUTTERMERE.

Buttermere is eight miles south-west of Keswick, and the inn is a place for plain, but decent and comfortable refreshment; it lies about half the distance between the lakes of Crummock and Buttermere. The slate which is procured from Honister Crag, is carted over this bridge to the upper end of Crummock Water, from whence it is navigated to the foot of the lake, and sent from thence to various parts of the kingdom.

BUTTERMERE.

This view is taken in the lands near High Park, about one miles from the village of Buttermere; the distant mountain is Honister Crag.
KESWICK.
button next page
button to main menu Lakes Guides menu.