Description of Sixty Studies, pp.46-47

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	page 46:- must be done, but with all due attention to the nature of the subject. The writer is anxious that what he has here offered, should not be considered as an impertinent intrusion of opinion; he sincerely declares that, excepting the one before spoken of, he has no end to answer by it but the introduction of a better taste. What he has said about Rydal, will apply with equal propriety to other parts of the country; and it would be a considerable addition to his pleasures, if by his written or verbal observations he could, in any degree, be the means of instilling into gentlemen, yeoman, or stewards, that feeling by which they might render their properties more valuable, and the face of this charming country infinitely more pleasing. page 47:-
plate 18   Low Fall, Rydal
	No. 18. LOWER FALL AT RYDAL. Highly to the credit of the Rydal family, who have given to the public a sight of the falls, excellent foot-paths have been made to them from the road: this view is from a summer-house which is near the hall, and is a scene as complete in its kind as any in the country. - What Mr. Gilpin has excellently said of this fall, will be more properly applied to it as observed from a bank a few yards above the summer-house than from it. - "The water falls within a few yards of the eye, which being rather above its level, has a long perspective view of the stream, as it hurries from the higher grounds, tumbling in various little breaks through its rocky channel, darkened with thicket, till it arrives at the edge of the precipice before the window, from
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