button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.24-25
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  plate 12
  'Cherry Tree'
No. 12.


CHERRY TREE, STOCK GILL.

By some unaccountable mistake, the large tree in this print is called a cherry tree, but is in reality a species of wych elm. - The wych elm and the wild cherry tree grow luxuriantly and to a prodigious size on the banks of this little river.

  plate 13
  Stock Ghyll
No. 13.


STOCK GILL, AMBLESIDE.

This view is about one hundred yards below the water-fall, and like the foregoing three, is down the stream.

  plate 14
  Stock Ghyll
No. 14.


STUDY IN STOCK GILL.

This study of rocks and trees was made thirty of forty yards below the foot of the force.
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The ramification of such trees as hang on the steep banks of rivers are usually wildly undulating, but straightness is the peculiar character of such as grow near the margins or out of the beds of rivers.

  plate 15
  Stockghyll Force
No. 15.


STOCK GILL FORCE.

The beauties of this admired water-fall are in a great degree lost to the generality of visitors, because they only see it from the foot-path, skirting the top of a bank which rises to a great height, and almost perpendicularly from the bottom of the channel; and the spectator looks down upon the scene, rather than upwards or horizontally; his view of the water is likewise considerably impeded by wood, of which there is a redundancy.
The finest views are from the bottom, and at some places a little above it;
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