button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.48-49
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whence it rushes into the bason, which is formed by nature in the native rock."

  plate 19
  Rydal Hall
No. 19.


SCENE NEAR RYDAL HALL.

This view is on the river between the lower fall and the wooden bridge, passed on the way to the upper fall; and perhaps such a scene as Shakespear had in his "mind's eye," when he composed Jacques description of the bankrupt deer, in "As you like it."

  plate 20
  Windermere lake
  oak trees
No. 20.


WINDERMERE, FROM RYDAL PARK.

We look towards the foot of Windermere from Rydal park, which, though a flat scene, is beautiful; but distances like the present are not calculated to please in outline. This view is given rather as an exhibition of the oak trees, than of the lake; but the
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combination has, however, in nature, a fine effect.

  plate 21
  Rydal Water
No. 21.


RYDAL WATER, FROM RYDAL PARK.

This view is taken near the south-west corner of the park: Beyond the lake appears the road to Keswick, at about two miles and a half from Ambleside; before the road reaches the third mile, there is a fine view of the lake and vale of Grasmere; Langdale pikes and Bow Fell are the remote objects in the scene, which scene, in nature, under some circumstances of effect, is of extraordinary beauty.

  plate 22
  oak tree
  Rydal Park
No. 22.


OAK, IN RYDAL PARK.

This picturesque stump is amongst the highest oaks in the park, and till lately, in the neighbourhood of several
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