button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.58-59
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ride round it, or see the circumjacent country from the water, or go to Castlerigg, which is a divine situation; for whether we look towards Borrowdale or Newlands, Bassenthwaite or Skiddaw, from Castlerigg, the eye will not fail of being abundantly gratified.
Castlerigg is a mile from Keswick, and about two hundred yards west of the first mile stone on the Ambleside road, and this view is from a field north of the houses, and looking towards the mountains of Borrowdale and Wastdale, of which Great Gable and Great-End are the most remote from the eye; the woods about the village of Grange are seen at the head of the lake, and over them Gate Crag, which is succeeded by a mountain that stretches itself north towards Cat Bells; Wallow Crag, richly dressed in wood, screens the valley on the east.
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  plate 31
  islands, Derwent Water
No. 31.


THE ISLANDS ON DERWENT WATER.

The site of the present scene is near that of the last, but looking towards the mountains of Newlands and Braithwaite, and this view comprehends the three large islands.
Lord's Island is beyond the trees, and on the other side of the lake see Water-end bay, at the extremity of which stands that tasteful building erected by Lord William Gordon, for his occasional residence; all the lands bounding that side of the lake observed here belong to his lordship. - Vicars Island, late Pocklington's Island, now the property of Colonel Peché, from this place apparently in contact with the mainland, is on the right, and St. Herbert's on the left. The mountains Swinside, Barrow, and Grisdale, with its pike, are seen over Vicar's Island;
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