button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.62-63
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always be influenced by a disposition to contribute to the perfection of that taste which he knows is the last and highest ornament of the temple of talents and virtue.
The view from Crow Park is into Borrowdale.
Vicar's Island is a principal feature of the middle distance, and it is to be reached by boats from the pier on the opposite shore; in the neighbourhood of which pier are moored various small craft for the navigation of the lake; the rocks of Lowdore, with its water-fall, are over the boat-house, and to the left, the mountains of Watenlath. Beyond Vicar's Island, and over the middle of the lake see Grange Fell, Grange Crag, Castle Crag, and Gate Crag; the mountains beyond Rosthwaite terminate the distance, of which Rosthwaite Pike and Great End are the most considerable.
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  plate 33
  Derwent Water
No. 33.


DERWENT WATER, FROM ISTHMUS.

That point of the projecting shore of Derwent Water called Isthmus, lies north of Vicar's Island, and is covered with trees, of which some are oaks of a respectable growth.
Vicar's Island appears on the right, and in the middle of the subject, edging the lake, see Friar Crag - the distance is Wallow Crag and various large rocks above Barrow Common.

  plate 34
  Falcon Crag
No. 34.


FALCON CRAG, ON DERWENT WATER.

This view of the magnificent rocks which rise above Barrow Common, is taken from the point of land which stretches itself into the lake near Barrow Hall - figures passing along the
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