button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.116-117
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The mountains on the immediate head of the water are not so steep as those which border it on the sides half way down, but they are rich in wood. St. Sunday, or St. Sundian Crag, swells sublimely above them, and is a fine object from many parts of the valley; from Gow-barrow on one side, and Place Fell on the other side of the lake, the mountains gradually diminish into little hills, and from a gigantic ruggedness, to a soft and verdant meadow and pasturage.
Those who see Ulls Water from Ambleside, and have only one day to spare for that purpose, must go upon the lake, and not neglect the Purse, which is a little bay near the house called Blawike, House Holm, and Lyulphs Tower, from each of which places the head of the lake, with the intermediate matter, is in grand arrangement.
From Lyulphs Tower the party may
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return to the inn at Patterdale on foot, but if in a carriage, it must meet the party at the tower; in preference to this, none must be persuaded to adopt a retrograde movement. At Powley Bridge, which is at the foot of the lake, there is a respectable inn: Powley Bridge is seven miles north of the foot of

  Hawes Water
HAWS WATER,

which is three miles long: it lies deeply intrenched among the mountains; its banks are sprinkled with trees as wildly as if shed from the heavens: footmen (not the party coloured gentlemen, for they would scorn such meanness) may make charming excursions, by passing from Kendal through Long Sleddale, over Harter Fell, by Chapel Hill, to Haws Water; and from thence by way of Powley Bridge, Ulls Water, and Patterdale to Ambleside - there is plea-
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