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  yew tree, Patterdale
No. 58.


YEW TREE IN PATTERDALE CHURCH-YARD.

This Yew Tree, picturesque in ruin, is said, formerly, to have shaded considerably more ground than it does at present, which is probable from its trunk being somewhat disproportioned to its branches; the church and the tree are about a quarter of a mile from the inn on the road to the lake.

  Glencoyne
No. 59 and 60.


GLEN COIN.

Glen Coin is a farm house, belonging to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk.
The building itself is well formed for the purpose of an artist, and age has given more interest to the form, by planting mosses and other
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vegetables upon it; the hand of time has likewise been judiciously at work with his pencil, his palette being set with all the hues of nature. By the side of this building runs a brook dividing Westmorland from Cumberland, and over the brook is a picturesque bridge, which bridge is represented in the last of this series of prints. From the valley, in which this house is placed, the mountains rise precipitously and high, and in every direction form fine back grounds: The house is rich in its accompaniments of wood, for the trees in some situations spread over it with an uncommon mixture of wildness and elegance; and this old building, surrounded as it is by all that is grand and picturesque, is, of its kind, a better place for study than any other known to the artist.
Glen Coin is two or three hundred yards out of the road, from the inn
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